Tag: User interface

• March 13, 2017

  This Old App Episode 1: The Evaluation Stage

  

  Before anyone thought that home improvement could be sexy, WGBH Boston started a series on house restoration. This Old House is  still going strong after 36 seasons. If you’ve never watched, each season a house in bad shape undergoes restoration. The cast goes through the paces of find what’s wrong, finding solutions and doing the […]
• March 10, 2015

  Swift Swift: Basic Core Graphics for the Ring Graph

  If you take a look at many of the cutting-edge designs for mobile User interfaces on Behance or Pinterest, you find a ring, arc or circle graph. The Apple Watch’s fitness activity app uses them extensively. Yet, if you scroll down the object library in Xcode it is a not a control to drag and […]
• June 13, 2014

  From Apple to Raspberry Pi: Adding a Tkinter Text Box in Python

  

  Tkinter lacks a good list box. There is a widget, but as shown in earlier posts in this series, it doesn’t do the best job. We had to use underscores to get the list box to work.  There is another widget that might do what we really want: the Text widget. The Text widget is […]
• May 22, 2014

  Living without Storyboards: Make a Working Stopwatch in Sprite Kit

  Over the last few posts we’ve made a clock and stopwatch application in Sprite Kit. Last time, we added an animated button display for the stopwatch. This time we get the stopwatch buttons working. Get Our Variables in Order We will use several variables in our changes. Change our variables to the following: We changed […]
• May 19, 2014

  From Apple to Raspberry Pi: Adding Combo Box Selections and Message Boxes

  

  We began to make our penguin data collection interface last week. Today we are going to add Combobox selections to the penguin panel.  The Combobox widget codes similar to the Entry widget. Instead of text for a title it takes a list for values. We also will add our own dialog box using the messagebox […]
• May 7, 2014

  Living Without Storyboards: Make a Clock with Sprite Kit

  Sprite Kit — it’s not just for games anymore.  Sprite Kit is of course meant to write games, a full 2-d game engine waiting for use inside Xcode and iOS7.  While simulating buttons  writing SlippyFlippyPenguin, I began to realize there’s a lot more here that could be applied to a general UI. I’ve often tried […]