Michael's dashboard

Michael replied on December 08, 2008 23:08 to the question "Can we have an option to change selection color instead of green?" in Balsamiq:

Could there be a switch in the view menu called "Gray Scale" that changes the colors to the closest matching gray color?

A comment on the question "Can we have an option to change selection color instead of green?" in Balsamiq:

huh? – Michael, on December 08, 2008 22:33

Michael replied on December 08, 2008 21:38 to the question "Can we have an option to change selection color instead of green?" in Balsamiq:

OMG - I love it!!!

Michael replied on December 08, 2008 17:46 to the question "Can we have an option to change selection color instead of green?" in Balsamiq:

OK - So I am not a fan of Green or yellow and wish it was just a darker shade of gray.

Michael replied on December 06, 2008 10:44 to the question "Can we have an option to change selection color instead of green?" in Balsamiq:

The problem is its too distracting. When I show a mockup as a proposal, peoples eyes are drawn to the green. Everything is mostly black and white, but the green just stands out way too much. Many times I only have one selected UI component, so its the only color in my whole mockup.

What I have had to do in the past is edit the image in photoshop and convert it all to grayscale.

Michael replied on December 05, 2008 21:49 to the question "Can we have an option to change selection color instead of green?" in Balsamiq:

Yes - its too striking. And at times I would prefer it to be gray. I would really prefer the ability to control the color per mockup, or preference.

Michael replied on December 05, 2008 16:54 to the idea "image inspector and more keyboard shortcuts" in Balsamiq:

Peldi,
Regarding his point #2. I think he means this...

http://getsatisfaction.com/balsamiq/t...

Michael replied on December 05, 2008 10:53 to the problem "Text color selection oddity" in Balsamiq:

I think the point of the following post is related to this post in that you cant get back to the original color (blue)?

http://getsatisfaction.com/balsamiq/t...

Michael replied on December 04, 2008 17:10 to the problem "Text color selection oddity" in Balsamiq:

I have seen this too but never posted anything on it.

Michael started following the problem "Text color selection oddity" in Balsamiq.

Michael replied on December 03, 2008 22:46 to the idea "Active tab indication in Tabs Bar control" in Balsamiq:

I dont see why you would want this when you can already control it in the property panel.

Michael replied on December 03, 2008 13:36 to the idea "Support Creation of Custom Control Libraries" in Balsamiq:

This has been suggested many times:

http://getsatisfaction.com/balsamiq/t...

Michael replied on December 02, 2008 13:54 to the idea "Need "disabled" state option for numeric stepper" in Balsamiq:

This is a great technique for cases where you want to disable a lot of UI all at once. For example:

Michael replied on December 02, 2008 04:12 to the idea "Need "disabled" state option for numeric stepper" in Balsamiq:

Michael,
You can make any control look disabled by putting a rectangle/canvas in front of it and by setting the opacity and turning off the border.



I am sure Peldi will add the disabled state, but this will work in the meantime.

A comment on the idea "Button with multi line centered text and smaller font" in Balsamiq:

"I don't want Mockups to let people design things that cannot be built"

I understand this argument, but yet I am not sure I agree. Mockups should be simple for sure - but should not try to control what I can do from this ideology. We need to move technology forward, no constrict it. – Michael, on November 30, 2008 14:04

A comment on the idea "Button with multi line centered text and smaller font" in Balsamiq:

This is again where I feel that an online sharing portal of reusable community created mockups is what is needed. I think that you can just about recreate anything in mockups (ribbon UI for example), and people just need a quick framework to start with.

Perhaps you and I need to finish that community portal. – Michael, on November 30, 2008 13:59

A comment on the idea "Button with multi line centered text and smaller font" in Balsamiq:

It raises in interesting question. Is Mockups designed for Web or Desktop UI? I feel that Mockups should abstract itself away from whatever medium and not one over the other.

Why another control then? If you just allowed a break escape character, I think it would satisfy the need. – Michael, on November 30, 2008 13:29

A comment on the idea "Button with multi line centered text and smaller font" in Balsamiq:

Why dont you think newline (<br />) is possible in a real datagrid? I do it all the time in html tables. – Michael, on November 30, 2008 13:20

Michael replied on November 30, 2008 11:34 to the idea "Button with multi line centered text and smaller font" in Balsamiq:

I've been wanting to have a newline capability for some of the UI components as well. Mainly the data grid.

Michael replied on November 29, 2008 12:27 to the idea "Flickr-style pagination would be a fantastic addition!" in Balsamiq:

Michael,
GetSatisfaction does not handle XML tags very well and tries to strip them out. What you have to do is edit your BMML in a separate text editor and find and replace all the close and open brackets before pasting it here.

Find '<' Replace '&lt;'
Find '>' Replace '&gt;'