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Designing a Personalized Dashboard with Limited Space - Best Practices? pen_spark
I'm redesigning a dashboard to focus on personalized content that's easy to understand for the user. The challenge is to present the most relevant information within a limited space.
I'm familiar with ...
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How to make a JFileChooser (DIRECTORIES_ONLY) start off with blank in the folderName?
I am using a JFileChooser to let the user select their folder.
The user triggered execution somewhere they did not expect because the JFileChooser provided a default value in the Folder Name: field. ...
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What heading level is correct in a modal window? [closed]
When creating a modal in HTML (dialog window displayed on top of the current page), what is the most appropriate when putting HTML heading on the top of div?:
H1? H2? What is the most correct?
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Angular Material customization guide clarification
In the angular material guidelines, there's the following paragraph:
"Avoid defining custom styles that would affect the size or internal layout of the component, such as padding, height, width, ...
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I have interesting issue which first I'm not sure even if it's need to be fix regarding angular route
I have navigation in the header with:
[routerLink]="/base/privatepage"
The navigation is working fine and the module is not relaod which is good. Now, this is
page is a form page. It has ...
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How to use mouse to run to cursor or set next statement in VS Code
In Visual Studio, it's really fast and easy to move the debugger somewhere with the mouse by hovering next to the line and clicking the icon that appears:
Similarly, you can move the debugger back to ...
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Tabindex skipps over Link
My HTML5 tabindex skips over a link element. Even when using tabindex=0, the tabindex skips right over and ignores the <a> element. AFAIK <a> should already be in the tabindex (even ...
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Capturing scroll events on third party websites?
I am trying to compare scrolling behavior on a mobile vs desktop website. The plan is to let participants scroll on a mobile phone and desktop in a lab respectively for x minutes. Therefore, I have ...
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SwiftUI TextField Currency Formatting Problem
I'm running into a SwiftUI end-user, usability problem using a TextField to enter a currency amount.
The bound field is a double, initially set to 0 and when the text field is displayed, the prompt is ...
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Keep Keyboard Focus after selecting value in Autocomplete
I use an Autocomplete in a Flutter Web-App (using web-renderer html, but this should not matter). There is an issue with keyboard navigation: If I flip though my UI (multiple textfields/autocompletes +...
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WPF MenuItem usability by mouse
WPF MenuItem is only selected when user hovers mouse exactly over the text of MenuItem.
If user clicks now then menu will be expanded, good:
This does not happen when mouse is not over the text.
If ...
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Visual Studio Code: Menu Bar: Show All Commands
How do I add a command to Visual Studio Code's menu bar to make the feature more discoverable? I don't see a menu bar or toolbar editor like Microsoft Office's Quick Access Toolbar dialog.
For example,...
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Is it ok to set a minimum display time for the spinner from the UX standpoint?
I have a task to generate a file based on the data from several records (sources) that could be selected on UI. A user can select from 1 to 100 records. The generation (request processing) time ...
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When writing long lines of commands in gnuplot using the mouse to jump to sections does not work. Any advice please?
when writing long command lines in gnuplot 5.4 - e.g., plotting several sets of data in one graph - it would be useful if I could jump to specific sections of the command line to edit using my mouse, ...
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How do you remove the top dotted bar in firefox
I've got a simple navbar in my app
nothing special
nav ul li a
in chrome safari brave it is fine
but in firefox I've got an ugly
top dotted bar when I click a link
Is there a way to get rid of it?
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Better file explorer readability: folder negative indent?
Currently File Explorer in VSCode makes it difficult to visually distinguish files from folders:
I think it would greatly help to have a way to add a negative indent to folders like it's done in ...
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LiteSpeed cache Plugin showing HTML only at the start
I am facing a problem. I have used the LiteSpeed cache plugin and it did reduce the page load time but its largest content paint is in link which is causing "clickable elements too close together&...
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IDEA IDE: Text cursor movement after "select all"
I use IDEA IDE (PhpStorm). My regular pattern of keyboard actions is "Ctrl+A, Ctrl+Alt+L, ARROW_KEY" to auto format code in the editor then to remove selection. Some time ago I just pressed ...
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How to remove bottom taskbar on a certain screen in React Native?
I have added a chat to my app with react-native-gifted-chat and I want to remove the taskbar (tabBar) on the specific chat screen, to offer more space and a better user experience.
This happens on iOS ...
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MSVC: is it possible to enable specific language extensions (i.e. not all at once)?
Context: C compiler option /Ze enables all Microsoft extensions to C and C++.
A simple question: is it possible to enable specific language extensions (i.e. not all at once)?
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How to set frame's background in Racket?
How to set frame's background in Racket? I want to change the background color of a window (for usability purposes) while still being able to place other controls in that window (and keep them fully ...
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How to best make my catch2 CHECK() output more informative about what it checks?
I am working on some code with unit tests using catch2 (and it will stay that way, for reasons).
Now, in the set of unit tests, there are a lot of (pairs of) lines which look like this:
T t1;
t1 = ...
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How to add context (not on the page) for screen readers?
For good accessibility, should the text for screen readers be the same text as the web page?
Issue I am pondering: Context may be different for someone who cannot see the item "in context" ...
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Configure git to always show absolute paths
How to configure git to always show absolute paths?
Example for git status -uno:
Actual behavior (relevant paths):
new file: xxx/xxx.c
Wanted behavior (absolute paths):
new file: /home/...
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How to determine whether tininess is detected before rounding or after rounding or indeterminable?
IEEE 754-2008:
7.5 Underflow
The underflow exception shall be signaled when a tiny non-zero result is detected. For binary formats, this shall be either:
a) after rounding — when a non-zero result ...
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SwiftUI - how to increase Toggle's target touch size?
I want to increase Toggle's target size for usability purposes.
It's easy with buttons using .frame(width: 200, height: 200) . But I don't know how to apply the same for toggles.
Here is my code. I ...
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Multi-monitor support?
My PC has 4 monitors and I'd like to use 2 of them on VMware Workstation, so that its displays be maximized. But it seems that it doesn't support using more than 1 display. At least it doesn't have ...
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How to evaluate a mobile app using ISO/IEC 25010:2011?
The project I want to develop is the Student Portal Mobile APP using Hybrid frameworks (Ionic4, Angular, Cordova).
My problem is I do not know how to evaluate its usability, functionality, reliability,...
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In CSS, is there a way to format floating point numbers to a specific number of digits to the right of the decimal point?
I am trying to determine if, using just CSS, there is there a way to format floating point numbers to a specific number of digits to the right of the decimal point?
The reason I want to do this is ...
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Identifying forged queries to the server / allowing only UI-made queries
Is there an easy/intuitive way to develop the logics so certain front-end/client-side queries to the server are only allowed when built via the front-end app, as opposite of someone using the session ...
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How can I trigger HTML5 datalist dropdown on via tab or why I shouldn't?
<input type="text">
<datalist id="popular-descriptions">
<option value="Datalist option A"></option>
<option value="Datalist option B"></option>
</datalist&...
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0.1 is an approximation, but why not round up behind the scenes as well when we add 0.1 and 0.2?
I get that 0.1 is actually 0.0001100110011001100110011001100110011001100110011....
However, in Python for example, why output 0.30000000000000004 to the prompt when we add 0.1 and 0.2?
Why not just ...
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Connect info to input
I am trying to make my webpage user friendly for screenreaders. How can I correctly connect the blue information text on the right side to the input field? The reason for why I am asking is that the ...
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Why by default Powershell scripts wont run by double-click?
My question is not about how to run the scripts with double click!
I'm curious about the reason of such behavior.
The .bat, .cmd, .vbs, .exe, and many others runs with the double-click, but .ps1 not, ...
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Is it possible to get all my GitHub code review comments?
GitHub provides quite a convenient API (REST, v3) to see everything on repository level. To see one's comments on code review, I need to know which repositories were reviewed by him/her and crawl all ...
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C11, 6.6.10: IB: other forms of constant expressions: additional conformance documentation is needed
Why it (seems that it) is a general practice for C compiler vendors to not provide to the end users an additional conformance documentation about implementation-defined behavior regarding «other forms ...
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Disable rollback-with-one-click function
For maintaining a vibrant wiki with a large user base that allows for anonymous edits, there is a great value in having a function to easily revert malicious mass edits (i.e. vandalism and spam) with ...
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Cumulative layout shift
I am trying to find out what's causing my site to fail Google's new core values CLS test on mobile devices.
The test shows no elements found in the test results breakdown but shows as needs ...
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In Visual Studio is it possible to see what the name of a bookmark is within the code window? (eg hovering your mouse over it to the left of the code)
In Visual Studio is it possible to see what the name of a bookmark is?
Quite often I put in bookmark to remind me about a piece of code I need to get back to, then later when I do something else I ...
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WPF. Pattern animation class
[I created a DrawingLine animation class to draw patterns.
The constructor starts the process of creating and animating lines:
internal DrawingLine(double x, double y, int _thickness, Brush _brush, ...
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Space between elements - is this making the code cleaner? [closed]
This is example code, not an actual project I'm working on:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<style>
div.infoguide {
width: 800px;
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Visual focus of Skip links
Is it important to place a focus indicator on a skip link destination even if the target is non interactive ? Do you believe that focus indicator should always be present in order to orient users to ...
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SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) : Recent Files (MRU) menu is too abbreviated to be usable
I have problems locating the correct SQL file to edit in the Recent Files (sometimes called MRU) list in recent versions of SSMS (I'm using 18.5). My files have similar names or the same name and are ...
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jQuery: Automatically add abbr tags to defined acronyms
The issue
I'd like to improve the usability of a website by adding abbreviation tags to selected acronyms, so people are able to follow a given text even without knowing all the cool terms and ...
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How to prevent double form submit without losing any data?
I have a HTML form with two buttons
<form action="...">
...
<input type="submit" name="button1" value="Localized button 1">
<input type="submit" name="button2" value="Otro ...
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Meshlab - Possible to export / import the current camera configuration?
I frequently spend time moving the camera around a mesh and fine-tuning just the right angle etc to view some feature, and would like to be able to easily save and restore that view for use in another ...
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Getting a 'line background color pattern' on Bash
I use gnome terminal / Bash on Ubuntu 18.04 (the default one).
When I get some command outputs with several long lines after each other, my eye has difficulty to follow which line some later column ...
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Custom Checkbox / Radio Buttons Focus
I've created Custom Checkbox / Radio using:
<label class="container">One
<input type="checkbox" checked="checked">
<span class="checkmark"></span>
</label>
<...
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How to organize Python API module to make it neat?
I'm writing a Python library that represents some web API. Right now, my library directory looks close to this:
__init__.py
Account.py
Order.py
Category.py
requests.py
In __init__.py, I have ...
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3D secure authentication iframe height
I've recently implemented 3D authentication into my checkout using an iFrame as part of a Sage Pay integration. I've then made live payments using my UK bank cards (Lloyds & HSBC) and can see ...
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