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wmiller marked one of Geoff Bowers' replies in Balsamiq as useful. Geoff Bowers replied to the question "Insert a mockup by reference instead of copy...".

wmiller replied on October 28, 2009 18:46 to the idea "QuickLook plugin for the Mac?" in Balsamiq:

Didn't mean to sell it short at all - it's GREATLY appreciated. Thanks Marco!

A comment on the question "Tag clouds - I think I'm pushing the edge here" in Balsamiq:

Have you tried inserting a Unicode space? That worked really well for me and should work well on Windows (charmap.exe) or on the Mac as I noted. – wmiller, on October 28, 2009 16:24

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wmiller replied on October 28, 2009 16:23 to the idea "QuickLook plugin for the Mac?" in Balsamiq:

It's a little rough in that it needs to launch the CLI version for the QL to be initially generated - but it does exactly what I needed other than that!

Thank you, Peldi, for putting the time in on this - will definitely make it easier to work with BMML files!!!

wmiller replied on October 27, 2009 19:49 to the idea "Add OSX Quicklook support for bmml files" in Balsamiq:

I'm sure it's not terribly easy, given that Mockups is AIR based, but I have to ask... I use QuickLook (and Default Folder X) a LOT to determine files at a glance. Any way that we can get more robust integration for these so that I can see which BMML file is which without having to open them (I'm lazy that way)?


Thanks!

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QuickLook plugin for the Mac?.

wmiller marked one of Giacomo 'Peldi' Guilizzoni's replies in Balsamiq as useful. Giacomo 'Peldi' Guilizzoni replied to the question "Tag clouds - I think I'm pushing the edge here".

wmiller replied on August 12, 2009 15:31 to the question "Tag clouds - I think I'm pushing the edge here" in Balsamiq:

So while forced ranking would be cool still, a creative co-worker and I were able to come up with some duct tape for the space issue. On the Mac, if you insert the Unicode non-breaking space character (Option+Space Bar), you can insert a space in a tag and not have it turn into two words.

wmiller replied on August 12, 2009 15:29 to the idea "QuickLook plugin for the Mac?" in Balsamiq:

Looking forward to it when you do. Thanks!

wmiller shared an idea in Balsamiq on August 05, 2009 20:45:

QuickLook plugin for the Mac?

I'm sure it's not terribly easy, given that Mockups is AIR based, but I have to ask... I use QuickLook (and Default Folder X) a LOT to determine files at a glance. Any way that we can get more robust integration for these so that I can see which BMML file is which without having to open them (I'm lazy that way)?

Thanks!

A comment on the question "Tag clouds - I think I'm pushing the edge here" in Balsamiq:

Thanks Peldi - I'm sure it's not used that often... pretty Web 2.0 focused I'd imagine. #2 is actually the more useful of the two - but as you noted, there are hacks - I've just been using "." as a separator for now. FWIW, I can use labels and come up with more elegant clouds where I need to for now.

I'm actually using it in a strange way - we aren't a web 2.0 company at all, and in fact don't use tagging - but your addition of tag clouds encouraged me to design a new approach for our upcoming version that made one of SE's giddy when he saw it.

Thanks for the quick response - for now I'll either duct tape labels together (which will give me more font size and layout control) or "." where I need to. – wmiller, on August 05, 2009 14:24

wmiller asked a question in Balsamiq on August 02, 2009 02:05:

Tag clouds - I think I'm pushing the edge here

I'm attempting to use a tag cloud for a couple of mockups, and hit a few issues. 1) It would be great if I could set the sizes of my tag items (or at least say, "make this one or these two the largest ones"). 2) I can't seem to make a tag cloud containing any phrases - only single words. For my example I need to have a few values that have two or three words - but short of adding periods between them, there is no way to add them. Can you add this functionality (Item 2 is the more critical for me)?

A comment on the question "Insert a mockup by reference instead of copy..." in Balsamiq:

Exactly Marat - the PNG image feature is handy for some scenarios - but in mine, I'm making upwards of 40 screenshots to cover a whole Win32 application UI - and there is an outer window frame that stays consistent, and a few inner panes that switch sometimes, but are largely consistent - hence my request for includes. I want to change these guys once, and have it reflected in all the BMML files without having to make the change and export a PNG. – wmiller, on March 19, 2009 16:17

wmiller replied on February 02, 2009 14:20 to the question "Insert a mockup by reference instead of copy..." in Balsamiq:

That'll sort of help for now - but requires a bit more work to prepare/sync them. The ideal would be the linked reference (or "include" as I think of it) where you modify once and it ripples through them all.

Thanks!!!

wmiller replied on January 30, 2009 19:08 to the question "Insert a mockup by reference instead of copy..." in Balsamiq:

Just another vote for this. I started entering the idea - "UI Includes" - but this almost completely describes what I want to do as well. If I have 20 screens - and only 10% of the screen content changes, it'd be great to have the common template created once (and editable from one location).

wmiller replied on November 27, 2008 03:55 to the idea "Right click menu on tabs at bottom" in Balsamiq:

Awesome, works great - I wish every company was as responsive to feedback as you all are.

wmiller replied on November 25, 2008 23:12 to the idea "Green heading row on data grid" in Balsamiq:

Cool, Michael. Thanks for the duct tape. ;-)

wmiller replied on November 25, 2008 22:19 to the idea "Green heading row on data grid" in Balsamiq:

Second that thought - it would be ideal if you could actually have a "headerless" data grid. On another note, it would be ideal if you could disable a data grid - it's one of the few controls you cannot disable.

wmiller shared an idea in Balsamiq on November 25, 2008 22:16:

Synchronize as png.

I like the save all as png option... but I would like something slightly different. Actually TWO things slightly different.

1: A preference (probably off by default) that enables saving a png by the exact same filename every time I iterate a mockup. That is, if I have a mockup named product.xml, every time I save it, save a png export to product.png (simply if the preference is set. That way no additional actions are necessary, just a "Save All".

2: A preference such that if I simply select export as png, it will overwrite the existing one instead of creating a new filename.

wmiller replied on November 25, 2008 22:09 to the idea "Right click menu on tabs at bottom" in Balsamiq:

I was wishing for this just today. There isn't a happy face big enough below for it. PLEASE enable this! :-)