Travis Jensen's dashboard

Travis Jensen replied on August 08, 2009 12:40 to the question "Add bullets to the list component..." in Balsamiq:

I'm just throwing out ideas as I have them, so take them for what they are worth. :)


It would be nice if I could do some basic text formatting in the paragraph text. What comes to mind it something like a subset of wiki markup. The formatting that I think would be really valuable (in my priority order):


1. Links (they don't need to really be active, but just be marked up)

2. Lists and bullets

3. Bold/Italic/Underline

4. Font size


Alternatively, I'd be comfortable with just doing HTML markup directly if that was more straight-forward to implement.


tj

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Formatting of paragraph text.

Travis Jensen reported a problem in Balsamiq on September 25, 2008 19:57:

Switching mockup tabs while editing text (datagrid,paragraph, etc)

If you are in an active text-edit box (for something like the datagrid), then select a different tab without first closting the text-edit box, the box stays open on the new tab. When you close the box (by clicking elsewhere), you lose any changes you made in the text-edit.

Desired behavior would be to close and save the edits when you select a different tab.

Travis Jensen replied on September 25, 2008 19:42 to the discussion "Comic Sans = bad reception from designers" in Balsamiq:

I would agree with Adam's list.

Travis Jensen replied on September 25, 2008 19:19 to the discussion "Comic Sans = bad reception from designers" in Balsamiq:

I really like that idea, but I'd go one step further and put the font information in the mockup. If I have the font, it uses it, otherwise, it falls back to the application's default. That is a pretty standard model and, generally, if I want to use a specific font in my company, I can arrange to make sure everybody has the same font.

Travis Jensen shared an idea in Balsamiq on September 25, 2008 17:08:

Making Trees smaller

I would really like the ability to make trees smaller. This would entail two things: a smaller font (either selectable or defaulting to a 9 or 10 pt font) and smaller icons. In general, I would love to remove the arrows next to the folders, since they are redundant to the closed/open folders and just take up space. This would be especially important on the small tree, however.

Travis Jensen replied on September 05, 2008 19:53 to the discussion "Shell Scripts to Export Multiple Mockups" in Balsamiq:

Just so anybody who uses it knows, you must exit any running instance of Mockups before you run the script or it won't work.

Thanks for this, Peldi, it is a very happy feature and script!

Travis Jensen replied on August 21, 2008 22:59 to the problem "Mockup hosed and making Balsamiq unhappy" in Balsamiq:

I can't think of anything I might have done differently. I did not clone or copy/paste anything into the mockup. I was working strictly within that one. I did save and try to clone the mockup, but the clone was fubar. I closed the app, restarted, and the existing mockup came in fubar was well.

I was playing with alignments, but nothing extraordinary. I guess I just hit a luck sequence of monkey-banging.

Travis Jensen replied on August 21, 2008 21:52 to the problem "Mockup hosed and making Balsamiq unhappy" in Balsamiq:

Perfect. It is happy and working again. Thanks for the VERY fast response!

Travis Jensen replied on August 21, 2008 21:40 to the problem "Mockup hosed and making Balsamiq unhappy" in Balsamiq:

As always, I'm very impressed by your service and responsiveness here!

Travis Jensen replied on August 21, 2008 21:34 to the problem "Mockup hosed and making Balsamiq unhappy" in Balsamiq:

Travis Jensen replied on August 21, 2008 21:33 to the problem "Mockup hosed and making Balsamiq unhappy" in Balsamiq:

FYI, I e-mailed you the mockup file that is having problems.

Travis Jensen reported a problem in Balsamiq on August 21, 2008 21:30:

Mockup hosed and making Balsamiq unhappy

Something has happened with a mockup I'm working on. It will not open correctly in 1.1.38, which is the same version that it was created in. The XML file seems like it is mostly correct (obviously it isn't 100% correct); all of my controls in the mockup have their proper text in the XML.

For example, here is one of the comments that is showing up black here:

<control>
<controlproperties>
<text>1.%20Details%20is%20a%20dynamic%20form%20that%20changes%20based%20on%20the%20problem%20selected.%20%20For%20instance%2C%20if%20it%20is%20a%20color%20printer%20with%20B%26W%20and%20Color%20toner%2C%20it%20would%20show%20something%20that%20asks%20which%20color%20toner%20needs%20to%20be%20replaced.</text>
</controlproperties>
</control>

Travis Jensen replied on August 07, 2008 18:30 to the problem "Many Mockup Tab Woes" in Balsamiq:

Sounds great. I'm a big believer in "if you don't ask, you won't get", so I talk a lot. :)

tj

Travis Jensen reported a problem in Balsamiq on August 07, 2008 18:26:

Many Mockup Tab Woes

When you open many mockups, the tabs get lost as they scroll off to the right. It would be nice to have the list of tabs be scrollable in some way so I can get back at them.

Travis Jensen asked a question in Balsamiq on August 06, 2008 15:23:

Export All as PNGs

When I export PNG's, I typically do many at one time. I would LOVE to be able to say "Export All as PNG" and have every open mockup exported.

Travis Jensen shared an idea in Balsamiq on August 06, 2008 15:19:

Formatting of paragraph text

I'm just throwing out ideas as I have them, so take them for what they are worth. :)

It would be nice if I could do some basic text formatting in the paragraph text. What comes to mind it something like a subset of wiki markup. The formatting that I think would be really valuable (in my priority order):

1. Links (they don't need to really be active, but just be marked up)
2. Lists and bullets
3. Bold/Italic/Underline
4. Font size

Alternatively, I'd be comfortable with just doing HTML markup directly if that was more straight-forward to implement.

tj

Travis Jensen shared an idea in Balsamiq on August 06, 2008 00:22:

Selected node in tree

I would like to be able to identify the selected item in a tree in some way. As it is, to make it clear which node is selected, I have to manually craft a "selection". I would be fine with having a different mark-up to denote a selected node (beyond the f,F, and -).

Travis Jensen started following the idea "Scrollbars as options from the properties panel" in Balsamiq.

Travis Jensen replied on July 31, 2008 20:31 to the problem "Tree not displaying correctly" in Balsamiq:

I figured it out. I had switched to using system fonts. I turned off system fonts, and all is happy now.

tj

Travis Jensen replied on July 31, 2008 19:17 to the idea "support for click based actions" in Balsamiq:

Starting point: just a simple link from one mockup to another. I "click" on this button in mockup one and it brings up mockup two.