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June 24, 2012

ForeUI Beta3: New RadioButtonGroup Element

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ForeUI V3.00 Beta3 (internal version number 3.003) is released. This new version introduces a new “RadioButtonGroup” element, supports Russian language and allow customizing the toolbar in simulation.  There are also some enhancements and 15 bugs are fixed.

The newly added “RadioButtonGroup” can simplify  the way to simulate a group of radio buttons.  In previous versions, we need to define some actions for a group of radio buttons to make sure only one radio button can be selected at a time.  Now things become much easier by using the “RadioButtonGroup” element.

The RadioButtonGroup element works like a List element, except that it renders its items as radio buttons.  You can double click it to edit its content: one line one radio button.  Just like the List element, “Selection Changed” event will be triggered when different radio button is selected in simulation, and you can check which button is selected by checking the “selectIndex” or “selectText” property.

The toolbar in simulation becomes customizable now, you can show/hide any button in the toolbar from the “DHTML” tab in settings window.  This feature is very useful when you want to hide some facilities in the toolbar.  For example, the “Property” view is quite useful for prototype author, but it means nothing to the reviewers.  It will be better to hide the “Properties”  button before delivering the prototype to reviewers.

From this version, ForeUI supports Russian language (Thanks Konstantin for the translation).  The new language option can be found in the settings dialog (under “General” tab).  Remarks: if you are using Windows Vista/7, you will need to run ForeUI as system administrator to change the language, since it needs to change the content in the installation directory.

Some Enhancements

Some enhancements are made in this version:

  • Allow showing behavior for current selection only.
  • The splash screen is not always on top.
  • Do not hide loading text before all scripts are loaded by web browser.
  • Set cursor to “wait” during the loading of simulation.
  • When drop file into welcome page, have it opened automatically.

Fixed Bugs

15 bugs are fixed in this version:

  • Bug_0329: When loading plot created by V2, should not override the line height and pad values for MockText element.
  • Bug_0330: In simulation, menu will be hidden by clicking its item or outside area, but the “Element Hidden” event is not triggered.
  • Bug_0331: Set custom property value in simulation, should try to make data type casting when value and type are not matched.
  • Bug_0332: Switch branching case should be able to use empty string as case expression.
  • Bug_0333: Double clicking .4ui file to open ForeUI, the plot is not loaded in edit area.
  • Bug_0334: When copy/paste element, the target element ids of its action are not auto updated.
  • Bug_0335: Actions belong to elements that embedded in container are not included during copy/paste/pack custom element.
  • Bug_0336: After deleting behavior root in behavior editor, the edit/remove button should be disabled.
  • Bug_0337: Using backlash to escape brace for object type property definition, the backlash should be removed in simulation.
  • Bug_0338: Branch/Loop/Delay that directly followed by an action with error, may cause Javascript error in simulation.
  • Bug_0339: When running simulation IE9, GroupFrame element does not show its bottom border.
  • Bug_0340: The size of popup list for ComboBox with any empty row is incorrect.
  • Bug_0341: List element has mismatch between cell border and background, when running simulation in Chrome/Safari.
  • Bug_0342: The newly added tag filter button is not saved for next run.
  • Bug_0343: Behavior filter can not highlight keyword with special characters (space, quote mark etc.).
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June 10, 2012

ForeUI Beta2: New Hyperlink Element

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ForeUI V3.00 Beta2 (internal version number 3.002) is released now.  Besides fixing the bugs found in Beta, this version also offer a new “Hyperlink” element, and some other new features and enhancements.  The main reason why we still mark this new version with “bata” label is the lack of documentation and examples, which still need some time to work on.

In previous versions, we have to use the TextBox element to simulate a hyperlink (by adding underline style, handling “Mouse Over”, “Mouse Out” and “Element Clicked” events).  The new Hyperlink element offers a much easier way to simulate the hyperlink, just input the parameters for the link and ForeUI will do the job for us.

New Hyperlink Element

Another new feature is to allow setting the page alignment for simulation.  In V2.xx versions, the pages are always aligned left.  While in 3.00 beta, the pages are always aligned center.  Now we can spcify the alignment of  the content, which could be left, center or right.  The new option in settings window allows us to set the default page alignment for DHTML simulation, we can also change this alignment in the toolbar in simulation.

Specify Page Alignment for Simulation

Page Alignment

This version improves the diagnose engine of behavior editor, the errors that caused by parameter missing can be detected now.  Also the actions with error will be excluded in the simulation/export, so the chance to meet Javascript error in DHTML simulation will be much lower.

This version also have the bugs below fixed:

  • Bug_0321: Memory leak caused by behavior editor.
  • Bug_0322: Starting in Mac OS Lion may halt by thrown exception.
  • Bug_0323: Clicking memory usage link should go to “misc” panel in settings window.
  • Bug_0324: Calendar is not highlighted correctly if the selected day is the first day of the month.
  • Bug_0325: Embedded element can not be deleted directly.
  • Bug_0326: Changing image reference does not work correctly when image ids are discontinuous.
  • Bug_0327: Tool window has incorrect size if its content is too big.
  • Bug_0328: Simulation in Firefox or Safari: vertical scrollbar is not shown when page is higher than browser view.

 

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May 30, 2012

ForeUI V3.0 Beta Released

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As I remember, ForeUI V2.xx has entered the maintenance phase for about one year, which means we have not added new features into ForeUI for a year.  After so many effects, we finally released the ForeUI V3.0 beta!  Now you can download it here, and feel free to let us know your feedback.

It is recommended to use the new version to create a new project.  If you want to use it on previously created project, please backup your data beforehand.  Remarks: we are still working on the documentation and resource store.

The new version offers many new features and enhancements, my previous posts (this, this, this and this) just introduced a few of them.  So today I will continue my introduction of V3.0.

All tool windows are docked on left, right and bottom side, and you can use hotkey to show/hide them.  If you have ever used previous version of ForeUI, you will find that the GUI of V3.0 becomes even simpler.  For example, the element list on left side is simplified: all elements are listed in one panel and you can use tags to filter them.  There are many enhancements like that, and you will see.

From this version will will see a new element named “Polygon”, which allows you to create special shapes.  When you drag the element into editing area, or click the element and then click in the editing area, you will start drawing the polygon.

You can edit your polygon with “Draw Mode” (click to create new node) or “Edit Mode” (draw to move any node).  After clicking the “Finish” button you can then configure its background color and border color etc.

As you can see, with this flexible polygon element, you can define special shapes on your web/software UI.

Hope you will like V3.0 beta, and I will continue introducing new features next time.  If you are interested, here is a list of new features and enhancements in V3.0 beta.

As for the license, if you purchased your license for less than one year, you will be able to use your license key on V3.0.  Otherwise you will need to re-order the new license key for it (the price is raised now).

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February 17, 2012

Minor Updates: V2.801 ~ V2.810

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It has been 4 months since V2.80 is released.  Since we are working on V3.0, we have not implemented new features during these four months.  However we received some bug reports from our support forum and release minor updates that include the bug fixings.

2011-06-08: Minor update V2.801:

  • Bug_0307: The borders of Table element in hidden page are still visible.
  • Bug_0308: Could not right drag (or CTRL+drag) Table or Tree from element list to working area.

2011-06-13: Minor update V2.802:

  • Localization: German translation update to V2.72.
  • Bug_0309: Click image in image dock, the “Use By: ? elements” information in popup menu is not correct (only current page is taken into account).

2011-07-16: Minor update V2.803:

  • Bug_0310: Select text element with non-default font, execute the cut and paste commands, the font combo box incorrectly get focus.

2011-08-18: Minor update V2.804:

  • Bug_0311: When performing selection, the embedded element should not enlarge the testing area of its container.
  • Bug_0312: Single row TextEditBox should not auto wrap its content in editing mode.

2011-09-01: Minor update V2.805:

  • Bug_0313: Single row TextEditBox with “center” or “right” alignment does not render the text.

2011-10-03: Minor update V2.806:

  • Bug_0314: Apostrophe in ComboBox element will be displayed as “'” in IE.
  • Bug_0315: Editing any node in action editor will remove its note.

2011-10-04: Minor update V2.807:

  • Bug_0316: Elements that embeded into Table are not rendered correctly since V2.806.

2011-10-27: Minor update V2.808:

  • Bug_0317: Mac OS X: double clicking plot file to open ForeUI, the plot may not be loaded correct.
  • Bug_0318: Can not use action to append row to Table that does not have any row initially.

2011-12-08: Minor update V2.809:

  • Bug_0319: Can not paste image from clipboard under Mac OS X Lion.

2012-02-18: Minor update V2.810:

  • Bug_0320: Copy and paste a Window or Tree element in the same plot, its embedded elements will have duplicated IDs.

Thanks for the users that report thoes bugs, it’s you who makes ForeUI better and better!

You are welcome to report bug or share idea with us on the forum, or via email.

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June 7, 2011

ForeUI V2.80: Many Useful Updates

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Dear friends, it has been a while since last update, and this time it is a big one.  This update includes a new language support and many new features and enhancements, with 5 bugs fixed.  This version should be the last one that provides new features before version 3.0 is released (should be Q4 or year 2011).  We may still release some minor updates before v3.0 for bug fixing purpose.

Brazilian Portuguese Language

Now you can choose “Brazilian Portuguese” from the languages list.  Thank Francis Benito Odisi for the translation!

New System Properties, Enhanced “Go to Page” Action and Page Navigator

The page navigator element has been requested many times.  We have planed to integrate the page navigation into simulation framework in 3.0, meanwhile we provide this temporary solution before 3.0 is out.  We added two system properties (Available_Page_Indices and Available_Page_Titles) and enhanced the “Go to Page” action to adapt the solution.  Now the “Go to Page” action can accept property as its parameter:

Finally we created a very useful custom element: Page Navigator.

We create the Page Navigator element with Rectangle, Button, Text Box and Table elements.  You can place it anywhere in your plot, and it will automatically dock itself to the edge of the page.  It provides the buttons for you to switch to previous/next page, and a pop-up list to choose the target page to go.  You can place Page Navigator element on every page, but it is recommended to place it in a master page, thus other pages can share the same element.

If you want to change the docking location of the Page Navigator, you can change the value of “TextBox_HorDock” or “TextBox_VertDock” element.

The Page Navigator element can be downloaded via the “Resource Sharing” button on left bottom corner, or this URL:  http://www.foreui.net/node/94

More Properties and Actions for Accordion

We added the “Recent Expanded Section” and “Recent Collapsed Section” properties for Accordion element.  It is suggested by pohldoug, thank pohldoug for the great idea!

Also we implemented two new actions for Accordion: “Expand Section” and “Collapse Section”.  Thus we can control the accordion with actions.

 

Better Behavior of Element Dragging from Category

We enhanced the behavior of element creation (dragging from element category on left).  Now you can directly drag element into container if you have right mouse button or the CTRL key pressed.  Also the grid snap or object snap will take effect when you drag element into page (although those auxiliary lines are not painted, for performance consideration).

“Set Tree Node Value” Action for Tree

This new action for Tree element can dynamically change the content of any tree node.  Both the row index and the value support properties:

Download Printable User Manual

Now the paid user can download the printable PDF user manual from the “Help” menu.

The downloaded manual has the same content with our online document:  http://www.ForeUI.com/doc/

Other Enhancements:

  • Moving/resizing elements in scrollable container become easier.
  • Auto complete font selector.
  • Hold Shift key and start dragging, will force to enter the drag selecting mode.
  • Avoid exporting CSS alpha filters in DHTML if element’s opacity is 100%.

Fixed Bugs:

  • Bug_0302: Scrollable Container can not accept any element again if all embedded elements are removed or extracted.
  • Bug_0303: Define “Set Global Property” action to set an in-existent property, then define that property in “Global Property” window.  The action will not update when externally rename that property.
  • Bug_0304: Could not embed element into container that overlaps on a bigger container.
  • Bug_0305: The property in “row” or “column” field of “Set Table Cell Value” action is not updated when the property is renamed.
  • Bug_0306: Can not drag custom element from category to working area in Mac OS (V2.70+).
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