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Show graph paper lines through container
If you have a container (and I almost always do) it blocks the appearance of graph paper lines... meaning they aren't useful for positioning everything inside the container (ie: almost everything else).
There's also no transparency option for (at least the web browser) container so you can't fake it (though that's a less-than-ideal situation anyway).
What might work is if, while you're dragging or resizing any object, you display the graph paper lines over top of everything else (similar to what you do with snap lines).
There's also no transparency option for (at least the web browser) container so you can't fake it (though that's a less-than-ideal situation anyway).
What might work is if, while you're dragging or resizing any object, you display the graph paper lines over top of everything else (similar to what you do with snap lines).
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Inappropriate?Hi Craig, that's a good idea, I'll think about adding an alpha to the browser control. The background is there intentionally, so that you are encouraged to move the browser to the back, so that you don't select it accidentally all the time. That said, I see your point. Have you seen this? http://mockupstogo.net/960-grids - it might help more than the graph paper.
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Inappropriate?> so that you are encouraged to move the browser to the back, so that you don't select it accidentally all the time
I definitely have it at the back layer, and always lock it so that I'm not selecting it (all which works well).
The grids look interesting as a workaround... I'd like to see it added into the base product though. "Snap to Grid" is always a useful feature (although so far I haven't been bothered by it's absence). The biggest problem with the grid bmml is that it's only for horizontal alignment (though I think that could be fixed easily).
BTW, I think the current alignment lines work very well (except for the lack of centering lines which I see is is already on the idea list).
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Inappropriate?One thing I just discovered with the grid add-on... it lets me define the size of my contained area without having to guess the size of the container itself.
For example: the Web Browser container has a big menu bar at the top and a status bar at the bottom... meaning the content area inside is a bunch smaller (and unknown) relative to its full size. With Grids, I just have to expand the grid to my desired size and then expand the Web Browser until it fits around it. Balsamiq's snap lines make this easy to do.
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This is one of the best points
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Sweet! :) I'll bump up the priority of "snap on center" too.
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