http://dzone.com/links/tag/gui.html DZone: fresh links for developers en-us Copyright (c) 2006 DZone, Inc. Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:35:45 GMT The DZone community 2008-08-29T22:35:45Z en-us Copyright (c) 2006 DZone, Inc. http://dzone.com/links/feed/frontpage/gui/rss.xml http://www.dzone.com/images/std/dzone.com_258x55.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/ http://dzone.com/links/rss/vector_graphics_for_web_design.html Here are FREE vector graphics for web design. gui trends web 2.0 web design Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:54:44 GMT http://dzone.com/links/107571.html sachania 2008-08-29T13:54:44Z Here are FREE vector graphics for web design.]]> 107571 2008-08-27T11:16:39Z 2008-08-29T13:54:44Z 6 0 200 0 http://dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/107571.jpg sachania http://dzone.com/links/images/avatars/306263.gif http://dzone.com/links/rss/firefox_proposal_a_better_new_tab_screen.html I’ve been thinking a lot recently about what it means to design interfaces at scale. The amount of time saved when the tasks we do often are streamlined is staggering when multiplied by a quarter of a billion users. At the moment, I’m interested in what we can streamline in the new-tab workflow. gui opinion tools usability Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:50:06 GMT http://dzone.com/links/107255.html bloid 2008-08-29T11:50:06Z I’ve been thinking a lot recently about what it means to design interfaces at scale. The amount of time saved when the tasks we do often are streamlined is staggering when multiplied by a quarter of a billion users. At the moment, I’m interested in what we can streamline in the new-tab workflow.]]> 107255 2008-08-26T14:16:25Z 2008-08-29T11:50:06Z 10 0 486 3 http://dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/107255.jpg bloid http://dzone.com/links/images/avatars/111696.gif http://dzone.com/links/rss/amazing_web_design_articles_of_summer_2008.html This is the second part of best summer 2008 articles, but this time focus is on web design. Again, there was a lot of great articles, tutorials and resources but I wanted to keep this list as short as possible. So these are the best of the best, at least by my opinion. css-html gui usability web design Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:39:33 GMT http://dzone.com/links/108192.html dzovan 2008-08-29T09:39:33Z This is the second part of best summer 2008 articles, but this time focus is on web design. Again, there was a lot of great articles, tutorials and resources but I wanted to keep this list as short as possible. So these are the best of the best, at least by my opinion.]]> 108192 2008-08-28T20:23:06Z 2008-08-29T09:39:33Z 15 0 293 0 http://dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/108192.jpg dzovan http://dzone.com/links/images/avatars/286328.gif http://dzone.com/links/rss/why_gwt_matters_part_ii.html This article provides a conclusion of reflections on the Google Web Toolkit and suggests why we are finally recouping some of what we lost when we switched to developing applications for the web from the desktop. ajax frameworks gui java Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:50:12 GMT http://dzone.com/links/107877.html yzxbmlf 2008-08-28T19:50:12Z This article provides a conclusion of reflections on the Google Web Toolkit and suggests why we are finally recouping some of what we lost when we switched to developing applications for the web from the desktop.]]> 107877 2008-08-27T22:01:40Z 2008-08-28T19:50:12Z 9 0 249 1 http://dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/107877.jpg yzxbmlf http://dzone.com/links/images/avatars/327106.gif http://dzone.com/links/rss/charts_zoom_range_selector_version_2.html this is the second Flex chart range selector. flash-flex gui ria Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:47:08 GMT http://dzone.com/links/107750.html shemesh 2008-08-28T19:47:08Z this is the second Flex chart range selector.]]> 107750 2008-08-27T18:02:33Z 2008-08-28T19:47:08Z 5 0 98 0 http://dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/107750.jpg shemesh http://dzone.com/links/images/avatars/210144.gif http://dzone.com/links/rss/ui_is_the_killer_feature.html Pretty much every tech product, whether a mobile phone or a web app, has a feature list — a big list of things that product promises to do. Companies are proud of their long feature lists and consumers love to compare the features of their new gadget against that of their friends'. But there is one thing that's even more important than all of this. The user interface (UI).The user interface is the gateway between the person using a product and its feature set — indeed, without a UI, the user wouldn't be able to interact with their gadget or app. Make a bad UI and the user won't be able to get to half the features your product has (and that's if you're lucky). They just won't be able to navigate to the feature they were looking for, won't figure out how to use it or simply won't even know it's there. gui opinion Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:08:08 GMT http://dzone.com/links/108001.html bloid 2008-08-28T19:08:08Z Pretty much every tech product, whether a mobile phone or a web app, has a feature list — a big list of things that product promises to do. Companies are proud of their long feature lists and consumers love to compare the features of their new gadget against that of their friends'. But there is one thing that's even more important than all of this. The user interface (UI).The user interface is the gateway between the person using a product and its feature set — indeed, without a UI, the user wouldn't be able to interact with their gadget or app. Make a bad UI and the user won't be able to get to half the features your product has (and that's if you're lucky). They just won't be able to navigate to the feature they were looking for, won't figure out how to use it or simply won't even know it's there.]]> 108001 2008-08-28T06:25:52Z 2008-08-28T19:08:08Z 12 0 303 0 http://dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/108001.jpg bloid http://dzone.com/links/images/avatars/111696.gif http://dzone.com/links/rss/nimbus_uimanager_uidefaults.html Nimbus is completely configured by properties in the UIManager defaults table. In my last blog I showed a simple example of how to skin a single component. This gave you a sneak peek into the power of these properties. Lots of people have asked for a complete list of properties that can be set, well its simple just grab UIManager.getLookAndFeelDefaults() and iterate over the contents of the map and print the keys and values and there you go. Well I am not that cruel so I did the work for you and will include a link to a complete table of them at the end. But before I get to that let me explain how they work. gui how-to java Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:19:53 GMT http://dzone.com/links/107923.html daniel 2008-08-28T15:19:53Z Nimbus is completely configured by properties in the UIManager defaults table. In my last blog I showed a simple example of how to skin a single component. This gave you a sneak peek into the power of these properties. Lots of people have asked for a complete list of properties that can be set, well its simple just grab UIManager.getLookAndFeelDefaults() and iterate over the contents of the map and print the keys and values and there you go. Well I am not that cruel so I did the work for you and will include a link to a complete table of them at the end. But before I get to that let me explain how they work.]]> 107923 2008-08-27T23:51:48Z 2008-08-28T15:19:53Z 9 0 157 0 http://dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/107923.jpg daniel http://dzone.com/links/images/avatars/107114.gif http://dzone.com/links/rss/a_better_applet_experience_part_2_poster_frames.html In part one of this series I showed you how to set up a loading image, including an animated spinner gif. In this part I'll show you how use a screenshot or poster frame to speed up page loading. gui java javascript Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:20:34 GMT http://dzone.com/links/107380.html bloid 2008-08-28T08:20:34Z In part one of this series I showed you how to set up a loading image, including an animated spinner gif. In this part I'll show you how use a screenshot or poster frame to speed up page loading.]]> 107380 2008-08-26T22:01:50Z 2008-08-28T08:20:34Z 8 0 163 0 http://dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/107380.jpg bloid http://dzone.com/links/images/avatars/111696.gif http://dzone.com/links/rss/andres_almirays_weblog_weblog.html Didn't see that one coming too, but yes Paul Krill, editor at large at InfoWorld, interviewed me a couple of weeks ago, precisely after publishing a couple of posts on JavaFx/Groovy on this blog. I'm humbled by this opportunity as you can find Jacob Lehrbaum and James L. Weaver among the article's contributors, they do know more about JavaFx (both platform and language) than me. Here is the article's link Can JavaFX make a play for rich Internet apps? groovy gui java Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:34:11 GMT http://dzone.com/links/107843.html Kirill Grouchnikov 2008-08-28T03:34:11Z Didn't see that one coming too, but yes Paul Krill, editor at large at InfoWorld, interviewed me a couple of weeks ago, precisely after publishing a couple of posts on JavaFx/Groovy on this blog. I'm humbled by this opportunity as you can find Jacob Lehrbaum and James L. Weaver among the article's contributors, they do know more about JavaFx (both platform and language) than me. Here is the article's link Can JavaFX make a play for rich Internet apps?]]> 107843 2008-08-27T20:06:15Z 2008-08-28T03:34:11Z 8 0 178 0 http://dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/107843.jpg kirillcool http://dzone.com/links/images/avatars/160542.gif http://dzone.com/links/rss/creating_vista_style_login_screen_with_silverligh.html I was trying to create Vista style Login screen using Silverlight. I've seen couple of excellent custom Vista style UI designed in WPF by the known WPF gurus. Seeing their example I thought It's also possible to try something Vista style in Silverlight. Since Silverlight has many things common with WPF. So I started to get my feet wet to create a Vista style Login Screen using Silverlight 2 Beta 2. gui microsoft Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:21:56 GMT http://dzone.com/links/107607.html mswatcher 2008-08-27T23:21:56Z I was trying to create Vista style Login screen using Silverlight. I've seen couple of excellent custom Vista style UI designed in WPF by the known WPF gurus. Seeing their example I thought It's also possible to try something Vista style in Silverlight. Since Silverlight has many things common with WPF. So I started to get my feet wet to create a Vista style Login Screen using Silverlight 2 Beta 2.]]> 107607 2008-08-27T12:54:10Z 2008-08-27T23:21:56Z 9 0 191 0 http://dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/107607.jpg mswatcher http://dzone.com/links/images/avatars/225256.gif http://dzone.com/links/rss/curved_scrollbars_using_wpf_3d.html My blog entry Non-Affine Transforms in 2D? posted a year ago is about using WPF 3D to mimic two-dimensional non-affine transforms, which are not otherwise supported in WPF. Recently someone posted a comment asking if a curved slider is possible. .net frameworks gui Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:24:29 GMT http://dzone.com/links/107545.html bloid 2008-08-27T22:24:29Z My blog entry Non-Affine Transforms in 2D? posted a year ago is about using WPF 3D to mimic two-dimensional non-affine transforms, which are not otherwise supported in WPF. Recently someone posted a comment asking if a curved slider is possible.]]> 107545 2008-08-27T10:02:46Z 2008-08-27T22:24:29Z 8 0 187 0 http://dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/107545.jpg bloid http://dzone.com/links/images/avatars/111696.gif http://dzone.com/links/rss/video_what_is_project_nile.html User Experience Designer Jeff Hoffman shows how to use the features of Project Nile, a component of the Java FX SDK Preview Release. frameworks gui java tools Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:32:04 GMT http://dzone.com/links/107156.html cd78304 2008-08-27T10:32:04Z User Experience Designer Jeff Hoffman shows how to use the features of Project Nile, a component of the Java FX SDK Preview Release.]]> 107156 2008-08-26T09:36:40Z 2008-08-27T10:32:04Z 11 0 143 0 http://dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/107156.jpg cd78304 http://dzone.com/links/images/avatars/5255.gif http://dzone.com/links/rss/jide_230_and_mac_osx_icon_set.html We are pleased to announce a new JIDE Icon Set for Mac OSX. At the same time, JIDE 2.3.0 release is out. In this release, we introduced a new package com.jidesoft.filter which contains a lot of pre-built filters for String, Date, Calendar and Numbers. In addition, we refactored FilterableTableModel and SortableTableModel to allow a totally different implementation to do the sorting and filtering. announcement gui java news Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:30:23 GMT http://dzone.com/links/107198.html Thierry.Lefort 2008-08-26T17:30:23Z We are pleased to announce a new JIDE Icon Set for Mac OSX. At the same time, JIDE 2.3.0 release is out. In this release, we introduced a new package com.jidesoft.filter which contains a lot of pre-built filters for String, Date, Calendar and Numbers. In addition, we refactored FilterableTableModel and SortableTableModel to allow a totally different implementation to do the sorting and filtering.]]> 107198 2008-08-26T11:22:39Z 2008-08-26T17:30:23Z 12 0 189 0 http://dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/107198.jpg Thierry.Lefort http://dzone.com/links/images/avatars/252611.gif http://dzone.com/links/rss/java_swingbuilder_02_solving_all_swing_pain_point.html Version 0.2 of the Java SwingBuilder. Java SwingBuilder is an attempt to bring dynamic language-type productivity to Java Swing UI development by defining the layout/event wiring/binding in a separate YAML file and leaving the Java class to focus on pure business-side code. Inspired by Groovy SwingBuilder (the concept in general), Ruby on Rails (YAML is the new JSON/XML, but leaner) and GTK+ libGlade (for the idea of keeping layout and event wiring in a separate file). Uses MigLayout as the main layout manager. End goal of the project: to define max functionality with the least amount of code and maximize Swing developer productivity. groovy gui java open source Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:02:36 GMT http://dzone.com/links/106939.html Jacek 2008-08-25T20:02:36Z Version 0.2 of the Java SwingBuilder. Java SwingBuilder is an attempt to bring dynamic language-type productivity to Java Swing UI development by defining the layout/event wiring/binding in a separate YAML file and leaving the Java class to focus on pure business-side code. Inspired by Groovy SwingBuilder (the concept in general), Ruby on Rails (YAML is the new JSON/XML, but leaner) and GTK+ libGlade (for the idea of keeping layout and event wiring in a separate file). Uses MigLayout as the main layout manager. End goal of the project: to define max functionality with the least amount of code and maximize Swing developer productivity.]]> 106939 2008-08-25T18:16:22Z 2008-08-25T20:02:36Z 16 0 265 0 http://dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/106939.jpg Jacek http://dzone.com/links/images/avatars/116586.gif http://dzone.com/links/rss/print_watermarks_with_css.html So, as we all know - CSS has its limitations. If you’ve ever tried to implement printable watermarks with CSS, then you’ve no doubt come across a few of them. From vertical centering, to cross-browser feature support, to mysterious print-mode CSS rendering - printable watermarks turn out to be a real pain to get working across the browser-space. I spent a good amount of time cracking this nut this weekend and thought I’d share. css-html gui how-to web design Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:38:07 GMT http://dzone.com/links/106672.html pembertona 2008-08-25T18:38:07Z So, as we all know - CSS has its limitations. If you’ve ever tried to implement printable watermarks with CSS, then you’ve no doubt come across a few of them. From vertical centering, to cross-browser feature support, to mysterious print-mode CSS rendering - printable watermarks turn out to be a real pain to get working across the browser-space. I spent a good amount of time cracking this nut this weekend and thought I’d share.]]> 106672 2008-08-25T00:14:45Z 2008-08-25T18:38:07Z 8 0 180 0 http://dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/106672.jpg pembertona http://dzone.com/links/images/avatars/304491.gif http://dzone.com/links/rss/javascript_frameworks_3.html Excellent List of famous JavaScript frameworks, ajax frameworks gui javascript Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:31:02 GMT http://dzone.com/links/106718.html sachania 2008-08-25T17:31:02Z Excellent List of famous JavaScript frameworks,]]> 106718 2008-08-25T06:35:16Z 2008-08-25T17:31:02Z 7 0 532 1 http://dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/106718.jpg sachania http://dzone.com/links/images/avatars/306263.gif http://dzone.com/links/rss/flamingo_svg_trancoder_enhancements.html The demo applications for the Flamingo JRibbon component make heavy use of the SVG icons to make sure that the icons can be scaled without losing visual details. While Flamingo provides Batik-based implementation of the ResizableIcon interface, this has proven to place a noticeable burden on CPU during the application startup phase. gui java Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:19:19 GMT http://dzone.com/links/106728.html Thierry.Lefort 2008-08-25T16:19:19Z The demo applications for the Flamingo JRibbon component make heavy use of the SVG icons to make sure that the icons can be scaled without losing visual details. While Flamingo provides Batik-based implementation of the ResizableIcon interface, this has proven to place a noticeable burden on CPU during the application startup phase.]]> 106728 2008-08-25T07:30:10Z 2008-08-25T16:19:19Z 14 0 110 0 http://dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/106728.jpg Thierry.Lefort http://dzone.com/links/images/avatars/252611.gif http://dzone.com/links/rss/flamingo_ribbon_component_latest_additions_and_fu.html The last entry on Flamingo component suite talked about addition of contextual task groups, dynamic changes to in-ribbon galleries and reworked documentation. Over the past couple of weeks i have been working on the ribbon application title bar and formulating the future plans for the component itself. gui java open source Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:53:43 GMT http://dzone.com/links/106688.html alruiz15 2008-08-25T13:53:43Z The last entry on Flamingo component suite talked about addition of contextual task groups, dynamic changes to in-ribbon galleries and reworked documentation. Over the past couple of weeks i have been working on the ribbon application title bar and formulating the future plans for the component itself.]]> 106688 2008-08-25T02:23:03Z 2008-08-25T13:53:43Z 11 0 114 0 http://dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/106688.jpg alruiz15 http://dzone.com/links/images/avatars/134694.gif http://dzone.com/links/rss/httpwwwwittysparkscom20080824createbeautifulformf.html This tutorial will teach you how to create a good looking rounded corner forms by using the beauty of css and images. This is not confined to just beautifying the search box but this basic tutorial will help you to build custom good looking forms. css-html gui web 2.0 web design Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:16:12 GMT http://dzone.com/links/106596.html sravkum 2008-08-25T11:16:12Z This tutorial will teach you how to create a good looking rounded corner forms by using the beauty of css and images. This is not confined to just beautifying the search box but this basic tutorial will help you to build custom good looking forms.]]> 106596 2008-08-24T15:45:34Z 2008-08-25T11:16:12Z 10 0 644 0 http://dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/106596.jpg sravkum http://dzone.com/links/images/avatars/226338.gif http://dzone.com/links/rss/swing_links_of_the_week_august_24.html Here are some Swing links that you might have missed during the last three weeks gui java Mon, 25 Aug 2008 03:43:29 GMT http://dzone.com/links/106684.html aalmiray 2008-08-25T03:43:29Z Here are some Swing links that you might have missed during the last three weeks]]> 106684 2008-08-25T00:57:13Z 2008-08-25T03:43:29Z 19 0 357 0 http://dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/106684.jpg aalmiray http://dzone.com/links/images/avatars/168451.gif http://dzone.com/links/rss/from_pain_to_gain_swing_and_the_netbeans_platform.html Developing rich desktop Java applications has been historically a painful experience; but now you have new advanced Swing components and a complete application framework in the NetBeans Platform. See how the NetBeans Platform has made it much easier to develop a complex desktop application and the lessons learned in building it. gui java open source tools Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:38:24 GMT http://dzone.com/links/106560.html cd78304 2008-08-24T23:38:24Z Developing rich desktop Java applications has been historically a painful experience; but now you have new advanced Swing components and a complete application framework in the NetBeans Platform. See how the NetBeans Platform has made it much easier to develop a complex desktop application and the lessons learned in building it.]]> 106560 2008-08-24T10:34:40Z 2008-08-24T23:38:24Z 33 0 363 3 http://dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/106560.jpg cd78304 http://dzone.com/links/images/avatars/5255.gif http://dzone.com/links/rss/the_footprint_of_the_air_ajax_runtime.html Executing an Air application has a non negligible runtime cost. I did a few tests to see how much memory and CPU a very simple Air Ajax application uses. flash-flex gui Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:13:37 GMT http://dzone.com/links/105898.html julienviet 2008-08-22T14:13:37Z Executing an Air application has a non negligible runtime cost. I did a few tests to see how much memory and CPU a very simple Air Ajax application uses.]]> 105898 2008-08-21T17:52:00Z 2008-08-22T14:13:37Z 9 0 289 0 http://dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/105898.jpg julienviet http://dzone.com/links/images/avatars/284293.gif http://dzone.com/links/rss/make_data_not_look_like_data.html Just about every web page has some sort of data behind it. This blog post, for example, has a title, a date, categories, tags, and the body of the post itself, in addition to some other metadata. All of this data sits in a row in the Webmonkey database, waiting for you to call it up. When we display a blog post, you see the content–usually something new or cool in web development. You don’t see data. gui opinion usability Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:39:03 GMT http://dzone.com/links/105721.html bloid 2008-08-22T08:39:03Z Just about every web page has some sort of data behind it. This blog post, for example, has a title, a date, categories, tags, and the body of the post itself, in addition to some other metadata. All of this data sits in a row in the Webmonkey database, waiting for you to call it up. When we display a blog post, you see the content–usually something new or cool in web development. You don’t see data.]]> 105721 2008-08-21T11:51:50Z 2008-08-22T08:39:03Z 11 0 359 0 http://dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/105721.jpg bloid http://dzone.com/links/images/avatars/111696.gif http://dzone.com/links/rss/some_reaons_flex_looks_appealing.html James Ward politely pointed out some links where I could see more Flex in action (not the book). After spending some time doing this I started doing a bit of home brewing of my own with Flex. Here are a few reasons why Flex looks appealing to me (in no particular order). flash-flex gui opinion ria Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:54:22 GMT http://dzone.com/links/105869.html Gregg Bolinger 2008-08-21T20:54:22Z James Ward politely pointed out some links where I could see more Flex in action (not the book). After spending some time doing this I started doing a bit of home brewing of my own with Flex. Here are a few reasons why Flex looks appealing to me (in no particular order).]]> 105869 2008-08-21T16:48:10Z 2008-08-21T20:54:22Z 15 0 370 2 http://dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/105869.jpg gdboling http://dzone.com/links/images/avatars/152955.gif http://dzone.com/links/rss/skinning_a_slider_with_nimbus.html So time for a example of how to skin a Swing JSlider using the Nimbus Look and Feel and some simple painting code. So this is what we get with the standard Nimbus look slider on a dark grey background. gui how-to java Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:05:23 GMT http://dzone.com/links/105440.html daniel 2008-08-21T20:05:23Z So time for a example of how to skin a Swing JSlider using the Nimbus Look and Feel and some simple painting code. So this is what we get with the standard Nimbus look slider on a dark grey background.]]> 105440 2008-08-20T18:09:05Z 2008-08-21T20:05:23Z 15 0 171 0 http://dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/105440.jpg daniel http://dzone.com/links/images/avatars/107114.gif