UI Bites
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I'm not sure what's worse, the shirt or the Photoshop-job.
What are you saying? That's totally her natural eye color....
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
I'm not sure what's worse, the shirt or the Photoshop-job.
What are you saying? That's totally her natural eye color....
And her left thumb really did get under a steamroller, poor girl.
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Where's the retry button Oracle?
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I'm not sure what's worse, the shirt or the Photoshop-job.
I'm just wondering if there's also a "FRE[sic] SUB" variant of that shirt.
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@Cursorkeys: what's the point? You want to watch it fail again?
This is Oracle we're talking about ; problems don't go away on their own, what you need is a visit from a Very Expensive Consultant.
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@Zerosquare said in UI Bites:
This is Oracle we're talking about ; problems don't go away on their own, what you need is a visit from a Very Expensive Consultant.
The Nope thread is
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@Zerosquare said in UI Bites:
@Cursorkeys: what's the point? You want to watch it fail again?
This is Oracle we're talking about ; problems don't go away on their own, what you need is a visit from a Very Expensive Consultant.
But I'd really like the Careware versions...
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@Jaloopa said in Forcing a window to the front after running another process:
On Windows 10, the final window comes up underneath every other window from the application.
Based on every Win10 experience I've had this is the desired behavior (according to Microsoft).
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@boomzilla Seems they're going overboard in the anti focus stealing war
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@Jaloopa yeah, I know I've written about it elsewhere, but it's pretty infuriating when you're using the default settings and IE throws under a dialog to login to your smartcard and the taskbar groups the windows together so there's absolutely no indication that anything happened and you end up furiously trying to re-click the login button on a web page.
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@boomzilla We have sites that need a certificate for access. Not only does the certificate window usually come up under the browser, sometimes it's modal, leaving it looking like the entire browser has frozen
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@boomzilla said in UI Bites:
IE throws under a dialog to login to your smartcard
Don't you hate it when a dumb dev doesn't know how to use the OS API and do stupid shit like this?
Oh, wait...
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@TimeBandit truly. Somehow FF + OpenSC manage to do it right.
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@boomzilla In the IE team's defence, FF and OpensSC are allowed to search for the API documentation using Google, while the IE team is restricted to use Bing...
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@TimeBandit actually, I suspect it's not the IE team's fault here, because (I think) they're just using the built in authentication / crypto stuff, while the FF stuff is all custom UI.
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@BernieTheBernie said in UI Bites:
@Cursorkeys said in UI Bites:
Where's the retry button Oracle?
Why would you need that?
If At First You Don't Succeed... You're Doing It Wrong
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@BernieTheBernie said in UI Bites:
@Cursorkeys said in UI Bites:
Where's the retry button Oracle?
Why would you need that?
If At First You Don't Succeed...
You're Doing It WrongGive Us Money!!!$$$!!!FTFO
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status: unamused.
Apparently, since NodeBB is fucking with where menus spawn on mobile, I can no longer use the post options menu. Awesome.
Edit; and it seems to only affect not-my-posts. Good jorb.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
Edit; and it seems to only affect not-my-posts. Good jorb.
So it's a SEPP?
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@Tsaukpaetra: maybe NodeBB is allergic to cats?
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@Zerosquare said in UI Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra: maybe NodeBB is allergic to cats?
Still happens when I box the cat.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
@Zerosquare said in UI Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra: maybe NodeBB is allergic to cats?
Still happens when I box the cat.
You forgot one.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
Still happens when I box the cat.
I read this as "Shit happens when I box the cat." Yes, that's what cat boxes are for.
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@izzion said in UI Bites:
SEPP"Sepp" is the short form of "Joseph" in Bavaria and Austria. What's wrong with him?
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Ssh! Don't tell anyone I'm in private mode!
Edit: just to be clear, widening my window by more than 3px didn't help:
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"Insert Picture" in PowerPoint, get greeted with this lovely dialog:
Ugh, of course I want to "Browse" from a file, TYVM. Whatever.
"Insert Picture" again. Same dialog. Click "Browse" again. The "Open file" dialog opens in the default "Pictures" location. Fuck, could you at least remember the path I used to insert the last picture? Just a hint, it's also the same path the .pptx is saved in.
Frantically clicks "Send a Frown".
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@topspin You say of course, but it's not really. My most recent slideshow, the only images I used were from the Bing section. And it helpfully only pulls up Creative Commons images and auto-inserts the citation.
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"Insert Picture" in PowerPoint, get greeted with this lovely dialog:
Ugh, of course I want to "Browse" from a file, TYVM. Whatever.
"Insert Picture" again. Same dialog. Click "Browse" again. The "Open file" dialog opens in the default "Pictures" location. Fuck, could you at least remember the path I used to insert the last picture? Just a hint, it's also the same path the .pptx is saved in.
Frantically clicks "Send a Frown".
Some file dialogs seem open the location of the last similar file you opened: if you last opened a JPEG it might open that location again even though you've been opening files from different folders for a .pptx or .png file.
I can only hope though that the file picker you get when you click Browse is one of the newer ones where recent folders are listed on the left under Quick Access. If you've got one of the old dialogs you get only the general libraries.
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@pie_flavor said in UI Bites:
You say of course, but it's not really.
I think you missed something there, let me show it to you:
Pretty sure that's relevant, as I've found myself having the same reaction to that as @topspin.
Filed under: also, thanks for the empty quote.
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@topspin Oh yeah, and E_NO_REPRO. I click Insert > Pictures, it opens a file picker immediately.
Also, TIL you can insert a screenshot directly; Insert > Screenshot, and it asks you what window you want to take a shot of.
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Some file dialogs seem
open the location of the last similar file you opened: if you last opened a JPEG it might open that location again even though you've been opening files from different folders for a .pptx or .png fileto reuse the same dialog object instance every time the user clicks the open button, which gives the effect of remembering last location without the programmer having to write a single line of code for that - but apparently Powerpoint's "insert picture" recreates the dialog every time, and they still didn't write any code for that.FTFY
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@pie_flavor said in UI Bites:
My most recent slideshow, the only images I used were from the Bing section.
@pie_flavor said in UI Bites:
Oh yeah, and E_NO_REPRO. I click Insert > Pictures, it opens a file picker immediately.
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@Gąska Insert > Online Pictures.
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Some file dialogs seem open the location of the last similar file you opened:
Especially if they're reused across multiple file picker operations.
Edit: inverted by @Gąska
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@pie_flavor said in UI Bites:
@topspin You say of course, but it's not really. My most recent slideshow, the only images I used were from the Bing section. And it helpfully only pulls up Creative Commons images and auto-inserts the citation.
One day in your life, you might need to do a real presentation on work you actually did (I know, shocking idea), not just copy-paste stuff from the interwebzz to get course credits.
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@remi I mean, the slide show was mostly backdrop for the speech I was giving at the same time. But at one point I had a chart, which wasn't an image either.
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One day in your life, you might need to do a real presentation on work you actually did (I know, shocking idea), not just copy-paste stuff from the interwebzz to get course credits.
But play your cards right and that moment can be postponed until well after you've worked an entire career in this industry!
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One day in your life, you might need to do a
realbuzzwords-filled presentation on work you pretend you actually did (I know, shocking idea), not just copy-paste stuff from the interwebzz to get course credits.But play your cards right and that moment can be postponed until well after you've worked an entire career in this industry!
That's true. I fixed it for a more likely scenario, but then if you're good enough you might actually be able to do that presentation using results from Bing...
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This screenshot from our gradebook package (it's a cloud app):
Depending on how the gradebook is set up (weighted categories vs total points), it wants either
EX
orEXMPT
for an exempt grade (one that the kid doesn't have to do and doesn't count against them). The best part is showing the exception--the smell of Java is strong.Of course, when it falls over all the way it just spits whole Java/Hibernate/SQL stack traces all over the screen unedited....
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Wikipedia does a mouse-over preview on their links. This is bad, because I'm at work, and "sodomy" is apparently on the Wikipedia front page somewhere today, and I just happened to accidentally park my mouse cursor over it. Next thing I know there's a big preview flyout with a painting of a naked guy screwing a goat taking up half my monitor at work. Not cool.
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Wikipedia does a mouse-over preview on their links.
Nifty?
This is bad, because I'm at work, and "sodomy" is apparently on the Wikipedia front page somewhere today,
E_NO_REPRO must be a different day...
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I'm noticing that most web sites do not have a tab order anymore. The effect of
Username
TABPassword
ENTER on login forms is completely unpredictable these days.Oh hell. Most devs can't get native apps to tab predictably either. Yeah, it's a pet peeve of mine.
I just recently fixed the tab order on a VB.Net-based WinForms internal issue tracking program where I work. I discovered that
GroupBox
also has a tab order field (despite not being selectable itself), and it needs to have a value before any of its controls. Otherwise, the tab order goes to the last control inside that box, then to the rest of the controls inside the box in order, all before finally moving on to the next box.Also, as a fun™ aside, the
TextBox
control prints a rectangle character if the user types Ctrl+Backspace, instead of deleting the word preceding the cursor. However, Ctrl+Delete does the expected and deletes the word following the cursor.TextBox
does have the delete-previous-word functionality, but you have to enable Autocomplete and disable Multiline in order for it to work.TextBox
also doesn't support the select-all key combination (Ctrl+A), despite including the cut, copy, and paste functionalities and all the other Ctrl+[Shift]+↑/←/↓/→ work fine. The best fix for both issues is to simply write up some code yourself to handle both Ctrl+A and Ctrl+Backspace.
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I'm noticing that most web sites do not have a tab order anymore. The effect of
Username
TABPassword
ENTER on login forms is completely unpredictable these days.Oh hell. Most devs can't get native apps to tab predictably either. Yeah, it's a pet peeve of mine.
I just recently fixed the tab order on a VB.Net-based WinForms internal issue tracking program where I work. I discovered that
GroupBox
also has a tab order field (despite not being selectable itself), and it needs to have a value before any of its controls. Otherwise, the tab order goes to the last control inside that box, then to the rest of the controls inside the box in order, all before finally moving on to the next box.Hehe, I apparently did it correctly on accident then. Always thought it was weird basically everything had a gay order...
Also, as a fun™ aside, the
TextBox
control prints a rectangle character if the user types Ctrl+Backspace, instead of deleting the word preceding the cursor. However, Ctrl+Delete does the expected and deletes the word following the cursor.TextBox
does have the delete-previous-word functionality, but you have to enable Autocomplete and disable Multiline in order for it to work.TextBox
also doesn't support the select-all key combination (Ctrl+A), despite including the cut, copy, and paste functionalities and all the other Ctrl+[Shift]+↑/←/↓/→ work fine. The best fix for both issues is to simply write up some code yourself to handle both Ctrl+A and Ctrl+Backspace.That's an ancient bug I thought was discussed elsewhere here, but thanks for the reminder!
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Another shot from my favorite web app ever:
Note the reasons things can break. Not included--you hit submit and the squirrels that power the system were on break. Or the moon was in the wrong astrological house. Or...
And "actions" always require a full page reload and take multiple seconds to complete...if at all.
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@Benjamin-Hall: I wonder if the persons who write those kinds of error messages feel any shame.
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@Zerosquare said in UI Bites:
@Benjamin-Hall: I wonder if the persons who write those kinds of error messages feel any shame.
They will when we're done with them!
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@Zerosquare said in UI Bites:
@Benjamin-Hall: I wonder if the persons who write those kinds of error messages feel any shame.
They are sorry!