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Jon Boardman replied on November 27, 2009 16:11 to the problem "Resizing a control goes too fast with auto-scroll" in Balsamiq:

Hi Peldi,

Woo hoo, looking forward to the fix :)

Jon Boardman replied on November 27, 2009 16:10 to the idea "Exact copy/paste" in Balsamiq:

Cool, great stuff as always :)

Jon Boardman replied on November 27, 2009 16:09 to the problem "Printing (on A4) crops the image slightly" in Balsamiq:

Looking forward to it :)

Jon Boardman replied on November 27, 2009 16:09 to the problem "Strange drag-selection behaviour when outside of the window" in Balsamiq:

Thanks for the reply Peldi, even though it can be annoying this is only an occasional annoyance and is relatively low priority.

Jon Boardman replied on November 10, 2009 16:25 to the idea "Mockup Viewer" in Balsamiq:

This is great, thanks for the update guys :)

One small request that I would make to build on this would be to be able to specify the mockup files to include in the pdf via some sort of file/directory chooser.

The reason being that for a large project I may have a lot of bmml files, possibly including sub-directories and the directories may have files that I don't want to include. It can be a pain to go through these and open all the files I want to include in the pdf into Balsamiq.

This functionality would also be useful for 'export to png', again allowing me to specify which files to export.

Jon Boardman replied on November 04, 2009 12:26 to the idea "Please add more commands to the context menu" in Balsamiq:

Great to hear that you are already looking into this :)

Those cetainly sound like good options for starters, others would be:

- cut, copy and paste
- layering submenu (Office 2007 does this quite well)

Of course, with the menus being context sensitive then you could offer common actions for group selections of similar controls such as colour or font settings.

Jon Boardman shared an idea in Balsamiq on November 04, 2009 11:48:

Please add more commands to the context menu

It would be really useful if there were more commands added to the context menu in the main view. I often find myself right-clicking on a selection of controls to perform actions such as group, align etc on the entire group, only to find that they are not there and I have to go to the properties/command window to do it.

Of course I know that these are on the context sensitive properties window and yes I am being lazy in a way but I do this a lot. it would be quicker to have these actions on the context menu also.

Jon Boardman replied on November 04, 2009 11:38 to the problem "Icon is not being disabled on buttons" in Balsamiq:

Hi again,

downloaded this and given it a try and it does indeed seem to fix the problem, many thanks :D

BTW, like the new designs and icons. The icons stand out a lot clearer now, another good improvement :)

Jon Boardman replied on November 04, 2009 11:34 to the problem "Tab text sizing changed in 1.6.43" in Balsamiq:

Thanks for replying so quickly, again :)

No worries, it's a bit of a pain I'll admit but not a major upheaval. Adding the [x] would be nice, thanks for that.

Perhaps the problem would have been lessened if there was also the option to do something like a _ at the begining to leave a space for an icon, like you can do with nodes in the tree view? At least this way the gap would have been regular and not just me padding out with a load of spaces. Just another minor adjustment :)

Jon Boardman started following the idea "Add a [X] close button to tabs at bottom." in Balsamiq.

Jon Boardman reported a problem in Balsamiq on November 04, 2009 11:23:

Tab text sizing changed in 1.6.43

I have installed 1.6.43 and noticed that the positioning (could be spacing) of the text in my tab control headers has changed.

So a tab control that looked like this:



Now looks like this:



One thing I should note is that I am using spaces to create space for icons and [x] to simulate a close button. Perhaps these would be useful additions to the tab control, in a similar way to how the tree control allows for icon spaces and convert something like [x] to a close icon?

Jon Boardman replied on November 04, 2009 11:13 to the problem "Icon is not being disabled on buttons" in Balsamiq:

Wow, thanks for the quick reply Peldi :)

I'll give it a look and let you know.

I have also noticed that my tab headers are looking different since opening in the new version. I'll look into this a bit more to see if I can provide you with some more information and enter a separate bug for it.

Great support response as always.

Jon Boardman reported a problem in Balsamiq on November 04, 2009 09:40:

Icon is not being disabled on buttons

I have just downloaded the latest version of balsamiq (1.6.43) and noticed that when a button is disabled the image on the button is not greyed out.

Jon Boardman replied on October 26, 2009 09:23 to the idea "Exact copy/paste" in Balsamiq:

I have the same problem, even though I already know about CTRL+SHIFT+V.

The problem mainly comes about due to expectations set by other programs, I know that PowerPoint, for example, has the items paste into the same place when copying between slides. This is really useful as it allows me to copy common elements easily, as Eva recommends.

Beacuse I expect this behaviour, it is the first thing I do automatically. When I spot what has happened I know that I can use shift but it is gets annoying to have to redo the insert.

Jon Boardman started following the idea "Exact copy/paste" in Balsamiq.

Jon Boardman reported a problem in Balsamiq on October 26, 2009 09:17:

Resizing a control goes too fast with auto-scroll

When I am resizing a control and the cursor goes to the edge of the screen, initiating an auto scroll, I always find that the auto-scroll is way too fast and I end up with a massive increase in the size of my control. Would it be possible to slow this down somewhat or have the scroll speed relative to the distance beyond the end of the window?

Also, trying to scroll back up, while still resizing, can cause some weird behaviour with the new size switching between really big and small.

Jon Boardman reported a problem in Balsamiq on October 26, 2009 09:07:

Strange drag-selection behaviour when outside of the window

When I do a drag-selection and the cursor goes outside of the Balsamiq window then selection rectangle shows some weird behaviour. The selection rectangle slowly shrinks back down to a minumum size then starts to grow again and to re-build the selection. Move the cursor back inside the window and everything is fine again.

Jon Boardman started following the problem "Moving "live" files isn't handled properly" in Balsamiq.

Jon Boardman started following the problem "Dragging selections to edges of viewport doesn't scroll the mockup." in Balsamiq.

Jon Boardman replied on October 26, 2009 08:39 to the problem "Objects sometimes move ("jump") when selected" in Balsamiq:

I have also noticed that sometimes if you grab the resize handles after the move (but don't resize) they also may jump back. It's almost as if the sizing gets a little bit confused.