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mrlucmorin asked a question in Balsamiq on September 11, 2009 02:34:

What development tools do you use to create Mockup for Desktop ?

Peldi,

I'm interested in developing Air applications.

What IDE + tools do you use ?

mrlucmorin started following the idea "Allow grid column widths to be configurable independently." in Balsamiq.

mrlucmorin started following the idea "Zoom Zoom" in Balsamiq.

mrlucmorin started following the idea "Add Zoom functionality (in and out of canvas)" in Balsamiq.

mrlucmorin started following the idea "Text formatting helper" in Balsamiq.

A comment on the problem "After AIR 1.5 upgrade, Mockups can't remember Show UI Library / Notebook preferences" in Balsamiq:

Peldi,

Thanks, I simply installed the 1.5.23 version, and the problem is gone. I didn't have anything else to do, and now it remembers the settings after shutting down the app.

BTW, I'm on XP Pro.

Bye – mrlucmorin, on February 08, 2009 16:50

mrlucmorin replied on February 07, 2009 22:35 to the problem "After AIR 1.5 upgrade, Mockups can't remember Show UI Library / Notebook preferences" in Balsamiq:

Hi,

I've installed NEXT.257, and when I launch the program, I actually have to select "Show UI library" twice in order for it to show.

Just thought I'd let you know.

Luc

mrlucmorin replied on December 02, 2008 18:45 to the idea "Need "disabled" state option for numeric stepper" in Balsamiq:

Michael, you rock !!!!

mrlucmorin replied on December 02, 2008 18:43 to the idea "Button with multi line centered text and smaller font" in Balsamiq:

Peldi,

as always your support is very much appreciated. I wish some other companies had this kind of appreciation toward their customers.

About this 2 lines button, I notice that the first line is always bold. Could this be configurable ? I didn't really need a bold first line, just the possibility to have more than one line of text.

Thanks

mrlucmorin replied on November 30, 2008 03:57 to the problem "Using Quick Add sometimes "crashes" 1.5" in Balsamiq:

Peldi,

Here's a screenshot of such a problem:



As you can see in the upper left corner, a ComboBox got stuck there, and now there's no way to remove it from there and I'm unable to drag&drop UI elements onto the page.

I don't really remember the sequence of events that lead to the UI locking up. I'll try to be more carefull.

BTW, this is 1.NEXT.177

Luc

mrlucmorin replied on November 29, 2008 23:30 to the idea "Button with multi line centered text and smaller font" in Balsamiq:

Hehehe... my dreams come true !!! A picture of an iPhone !!!

I really appreciate the work and efforts you put in this product Peldi. I know you must evaluate and prioritize all those requests, and maybe what I'm suggesting is already on your TODO list, or maybe not. I'm just entering them here as they come to me, so whatever I suggest is not necessarily urgent. Just nice to have.

Luc

mrlucmorin replied on November 29, 2008 23:23 to the idea "Controlled size adjustments" in Balsamiq:

Peldi,

Yes, the inspector works well, but sometimes it's more "natural" to use the keyboard to do those "fine tunning" adjustments.

I just happened to see this post, and was wondering what direction you had decided to go. If you were to decide to implement resizing of widget with the arrows, I feel it would be close to what we are used to with our IDEs.

Luc

mrlucmorin replied on November 29, 2008 17:41 to the idea "Controlled size adjustments" in Balsamiq:

Peldi,

Have you gotten around to implementing the CTRL-ALT-Arrow keys as a mean to resize the UI elements ?

I would definitely like that.

Luc

mrlucmorin shared an idea in Balsamiq on November 29, 2008 17:26:

Button with multi line centered text and smaller font

I was playing with the XML for a Button, and to my great delight, I was able to apply properties that are not part of the regular "UI settings". I was basically looking for a way to have a Button with 2 lines of centered text and with smaller font.

I just thought I'd share with the community:

<mockup version="1.0" skin="sketch">
<controls>
<control controlID="211" controlTypeID="com.balsamiq.mockups::Button" x="1158" y="422" w="85" h="40" zOrder="58" locked="false" isInGroup="-1">
<controlProperties>
<text>Create/Modify%0ALabel</text>
<align>center</align>
<size>10</size>
<bold>true</bold>
</controlProperties>
</control>
</controls>
</mockup>

I'm wondering, if those properties can be applied through XML, why wouldn't they be part of the Property Setting UI ?

Also, being able to enter a line break directly in the UI would be nice.

Just some ideas. I'm really having fun with this software.

Luc

mrlucmorin replied on November 29, 2008 13:19 to the idea "Flickr-style pagination would be a fantastic addition!" in Balsamiq:

Ahh... I see.

Thanks for the tip.

mrlucmorin replied on November 29, 2008 02:03 to the idea "Flickr-style pagination would be a fantastic addition!" in Balsamiq:

Michael,

I have tried to paste some XML from the "Export mockup" menu into a post on this web site, but for some reason some tags won't show up.

How did you get yours to display properly ?

Thanks

mrlucmorin started following the idea "Support Creation of Custom Control Libraries" in Balsamiq.

mrlucmorin started following the idea "Custom Widgets" in Balsamiq.

mrlucmorin replied on November 28, 2008 17:41 to the problem "Using Quick Add sometimes "crashes" 1.5" in Balsamiq:

Sorry, forgot to mention that I'm running it on WIndows XP

mrlucmorin reported a problem in Balsamiq on November 28, 2008 17:23:

Using Quick Add sometimes "crashes" 1.5

Hi,

This version adds a lot of new widgets, such as the Groupbox, and I find it overall to be of an excellent quality.

I'd like to report on a small problem though. Sometimes, when I hide the UI library and select a widget by entering its name, and then click on one of the suggested names, the whole screen becomes grey and I can't interact with anything else until I Undo my change. I have not seen this behavior when dragging UI elements from the UI library. This doesn't happen very often, maybe 1 out of 15 selections.

Keep up the good work.

Luc