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May 21, 2009

Text Editing in ForeUI

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When we create UI prototype with ForeUI, we need to input the text on different elements.  There are several ways to launch the inline text editor in ForeUI.  When we select the element that can perform text editing, we will find the menu item or tool button for opening the text editor:

buttons-to-edit

What’s more, we can always double-click the element to popup its text editor.  According to the element type, there will be two kinds of text editor to show up:  single line text editor and multiple lines text editor.

single-line-edit

The single line text editor is applicable for elements that has one row of  text only, such as button, menu bar, tabs etc.

multi-line-edit

The multiple lines text editor is applicable for list, table, menu etc, which contains several rows of content.

Another interesting feature of ForeUI is the text editing within the group.  As we know we can group several elements into a group element, can we edit the text of element within a group? Yes!  Please see the animation below:

edit_in_group

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May 17, 2009

ForeUI V1.10 Released!

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ForeUI V1.10 bring us three interesting features:

Slide Show

Now we can view our screen mockups with full-screen slide show, we can even make some annotations on it.  The figure below shows how it looks like:

slide_show1

PDF Exporting

We can now export our design to PDF file, which is more easy to distribute.

Multiple States

Now most elements support multiple states.  For example, you can set the button within the mockup to a “disabled”  state.

buttons_wf buttons_xp buttons_mac

This version also make some enhancements. For example, a progress dialog will show up when performing I/O actions; The tool bar will become scrollable if the window is not big enough.

Two bugs are fixed:

[Bug_0042] Pages list should auto-scroll to make new added item visible.

[Bug_0043] Plot with empty page can not save.

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May 12, 2009

ForeUI V1.07 Released!

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This version bring us four new features:

1. Multipage Exporting:

Now we can export  the multipage mockup to images with only one action.

export-multipage

2. Export to More Image Formats:

Now we can export mockup to PNG, JPG, GIF, BMP and WBMP images.

new-formats

3. New Element — Triangle:

It is useful when we want to create irregular shapes in our prototype.

irregular

4. CTRL+ENTER to Finish Multirow Text Editing:

It is a small enhancement, when we are editing singlerow text, we can always press ENTER to finish editing.  But if we press ENTER in multirow text editor, it will just move the caret  to the next line.   Now we can press CTRL+ENTER to finish editing for multirow text editor.

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May 11, 2009

Selecting Elements in ForeUI

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Today’s topic is… selecting elements in ForeUI.  Seems I have nothing to write so I pick such an easy thing to introduce? Maybe and maybe not.  Have you noticed the “leading selected element”?  Do you know what is it for?  If your answers are “yes” for both, you can just ignore the content below 🙂

When we are creating mockups for our software or website,  we need to select elements very frequently.  Most people know that single clicking on the element can perform the selection, draging a rectangular bounds that contains multiple elements will select those elements at a time.  Did you know that we can press SHIFT key to select in “plus” mode? When you do this the cursor will be changed to arrow_plus1 and you can single click elements to add them into the selection.  Also you can press CTRL key to select in “minus” mode, the cursor will look like arrow_minus and you can single click elements that already within the selection to exclude them.

What’s more, there is a “leading selected element” concept in ForeUI. When you select several elements at a time, there will be an element that marked as “leading selected element”, which will have a dash line border with darker  color around it.  Take a look at the animation below, then you will know what I mean.  We can change the leading selected element by clicking another element within the selection.

lead_sel

What is the leading selected element for?  First of all, it allow you to edit single element when you are selecting multiple elements.  You don’t have to cancel the big selection and select a single element for editing, you can just set it as the leading selected element, then work on it in the floating tool pane.  Secondly the leading selected element can work as the “reference substance” of some actions, it will be very easy to understand if you take a look at the animations below:

lead_align1

 lead_align2

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May 6, 2009

ForeUI V1.05 Released!

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Hello all, today we released the V1.05 of ForeUI!   This version bring us two new features:  multiple pages support and version checking.  Four bugs are also fixed in this version.

Multiple Pages

Now we can create several pages mockup within a plot.  You can click the pages button at the bottom to launch the pages management:

page_button

After clicking this button, the pages management window will popup:

pages_dialog

We can add, duplicate, rename, move and delete the page here.  The pages can be organized with flat or hierachical structure.  The hierachical structure is very suitable for website mockups, since it looks like a site map.  This version also enclosed a new sample mockup: multipage.4ui.  It is a website mockup and contains 6 pages:

 

multipage_thumb

Update Checking

Now we can check the update from menu “About->Check Update…”.  Hope people check it frequently 🙂

Fixed Bugs

Bug_0030: The text editor may be trimmed.

Bug_0037: Floating tool pane may cover the selected elements.

Bug_0038: Image id display incorrect in floating tool pane.

Bug_0040: Elements should be aligned to the lead selection.

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