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Example of a horizontally-sliding UI

Hi all,

I am trying to find out whether anyone knows of an existing UI pattern, preferably on the web, that involves a single long horizontal pattern that the user slides to access more controls or fill out more parts of a form or something.

There are numerous examples of tabbed panels with a sliding animation between them (e.g. http://jqueryfordesigners.com/demo/coda-slider.html), but all of these are still conceptually just tabs, and not a single horizontal panel that you need to slide to access parts of.

Anyone have any examples of this? Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.128.48.26 (talk) 14:20, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

Windows Media Center uses horizontal scrolling extensively, both for the program guide and for the libraries of movies, music, and TV programs. It's real horizontal scrolling, not the powerpointish "next slide" effect that the codaslider thing does, albeit quite chunky (it's intended for people with game controllers or arrow-key TV remotes). -- Finlay McWalterჷTalk 15:28, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

Most Windows 8 metro apps are horizontally scrolling, although most aren't heavy on data entry. A Quest For Knowledge (talk) 15:35, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

There is a jQuery UI slider here. Check out the API and tell us if this is what you are after. You of course have to program the other stuff using the API, so I don't know if you are looking for something more specific. If the link is not useful, I've misunderstood the question. IBE (talk) 17:07, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

I'm looking for a free (or trial) database diagramming tool for SQL Server 2000

I'm looking for a free (or trial) database diagramming tool for SQL Server 2000, something that will read the database schema and allow me to select which tables to diagram. It would be awesome if it can read the schema to determine foreign key relationships between tables. Does anyone have any recommendations? A Quest For Knowledge (talk) 15:36, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

Embarcadero's Data Modeling with ER/Studio seems to do the trick.[1] A Quest For Knowledge (talk) 18:33, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

What's the encoding of bytes?

When I transform a number to a character I get that 255 is ÿ like it unicode number counterpart. What's the name of this encoding? The one like the Hex editors use, where each BYTE it's a character, is there an encoding for this strings? Or I would have to manually use String.charCodeAt at the whole string? Thanks. 190.60.93.218 (talk) 19:55, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

Turning numbers into characters is a complex subject: see character encoding for a starting point on the details. Hex editors usually use the operating system's default 8-bit encoding (Windows-1252, ISO-8859-1, or some other superset of ASCII). --Carnildo (talk) 02:02, 9 March 2013 (UTC)