Weekly Release: New Default Font (on OS X) and more
Hi everyone!
We have a fresh new update for you to download. Here's what's in it:
- If you are on a mac, the default font for Mockups is now Chalkboard, a nice little font built by Apple in 2003 and included with OS X 10.2.8 and beyond.
It looks similar enough to Comic Sans MS not to be a big break for long-time Mockups users, but it also possesses the incredibly important quality of being...NOT Comic Sans! ? Windows and Linux users are still stuck with Comic Sans until we find a suitable replacement: help us out! - Added support for font size and checkboxes to the Tree control:
So, download Balsamiq mockups full crack for mac is quick programming. You can begin the terrible ones and find your enthusiasm and best arrangements. Further, Balsamiq Mockups For Mac is the world celebrate proficient wireframing programming. This product accompanies bunches of changes and improvements in it. Simply download the latest version and install it on top of the old one. You won't have to re-register and your old projects will continue to work. Updating from Balsamiq Mockups 3 for Desktop (or earlier) What's new? The BMPR file format is the same, so your old projects will continue to work fine.
We also fixed the following bugs:
- the little arrows that denote linking no longer show up in the exported PNGs
- locked controls with links now work properly in presentation mode
- links in Vertical Tabs when the tabs are on the right-side now work properly
- If you want to type a series of star characters, like this *****, you no longer have to escape them like this **** - you can, but it's not required
- Fixed a bug with the vertical positioning of the text in the Vertical Curly component
- in Mockups for Desktop, when you close a tab the next one is selected (instead of a random one like it used to be)
Updating Instructions
Balsamiq Mockups 3 Download
- Mockups for Desktop: here (you might hit this one-time error if you haven’t updated in a while)
- Mockups for Confluence: here
- Mockups for JIRA: here
- Mockups for XWiki: here
- Web Demo: here
Coming soon: WebORB integration!
A few weeks ago I was approached by Mark Piller of The Midnight Coders, the main guy behind the WebORB application server for RIAs, about a project they'd been working on.
It's a web service which converts BMML (the flavor of XML used in Mockups) into a full-blown 3-tier client-server Flex application. The client-side code is a Flex representation of the mockup, and the server-side code generated can run in either .NET, Java or PHP. The generated server-side code provides all the data from the controls in the mockup to the corresponding controls in the Flex application.
It's really really cool, so I decided to link to it from the app:
You can find more info about the project here: http://www.themidnightcoders.com/develop-ria/balsamiqapp
Before we release the generator into the world, we'd like to give you a chance to test it out and tell us what you think. There are still some bugs to iron out, and the docs are still in draft stage. Mark has also promised to have a screencast demo ready soon.
At the moment the link is only included in the pre-release build, which you can find here. If everything checks out, we'll merge it all into our next update. For any questions or issue with the WebORB generator, please head over to WebORB customer support.
Thanks Mark and everyone at The Midnight Coders for this super-cool project!
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Weekly Release: OS X Extras and more!
Update: The Spotlight plugin for the Mac is no longer working and maintained. We plan to address this issue in the Mac version in the future.
Hi there! I hope this finds you well.
Things are crazy busy around here these days (no, really, you don't understand, it's REALLY crazy right now). ?
Nevertheless, we wanted to share a little update with you guys.
Here's what's new this week:
The Balsamiq Mockups OS X QuickLook and Spotlight Plugins
We're heavy mac users here at Balsamiq, and Marco's not-so-secret passion is native Cocoa development. So when a few of you asked usfor a QuickLook plugin, we thought it was a great idea. This past week-end we realized that we could leverage the command-line interface of Mockups for Desktop to generate previews on the fly, so Marco whipped up a wrapper for it as a QuickLook plugin!
That's right. You can now hit 'space' in the finder on a bmml file and see a preview of it!
While he at it, Marco also built a Spotlight plugin for Mockups, which indexes all the text contained in your BMML files, so now you can look 'inside' your wireframes when you search with Spotlight. Brilliant!
The two plugins are a bit rough around the edges at the moment, but we plan on releasing them open-source along with a bunch of other scripts sometimes soon.
The two plugins are a bit rough around the edges at the moment, but we plan on releasing them open-source along with a bunch of other scripts sometimes soon.
Installation instructions:
- Install today's Balsamiq Mockups for Desktop build (1.6.41) from here.
- Download the extras from here: Balsamiq_Mockups_OS_X_Extras.zip
- Unzip the zip, launch the installer and wait until you see an 'Installation complete' dialog appear.
- Done!
If there are issues with these extras, let us know on GetSatisfaction and we'll try to fix it...be aware that this is not super-high priority right now but we'll try our best. ?
Other improvements in today's build:
- added support for CTRL+B, CTRL+I and CTRL+U to toggle the bold, italic and underline state of the selected controls. Tell me why did we wait so long for this again?
- added more keyboard shortcuts to the tooltips around the app so that you don't have to keep a printed copy of this page by your desk all the time. ?
- on the Mac, the tooltips now say COMMAND, instead of saying CTRL, which makes it feel a bit more native (CTRL will still work if that's what you're used to).
- Mockups for JIRA now warns you when you try to install the plugin on a JIRA installation that has attachment disabled.
- Mockups for Desktop no longer 'flashes' when you use it from the command-line. (we had to temporarely revert this improvement in 1.6.42, but we'll fix it properly tomorrow).
- If you have both Mockups for JIRA and Mockups for Confluence and use Crowd or LDAP to authenticate your users, you can now differentiate your plugin users by using the following two user group names: balsamiq-mockups-editors-confluence and balsamiq-mockups-editors-jira. The old 'balsamiq-mockups-editors' group still works, so this shouldn't affect the vast majority of you.
And some bug fixes:
- selecting 'No Link' properly removes the link again!
- if your documents folder is in a non-standard location (like a disconnected network drive for instance), Mockups will fail more gracefully (instead of hanging on launch)
- you can now enter links right after a '(' character again, like ([this]).
- we had to rename our internal fileType's name from com.balsamiq.MockupFile to com.balsamiq.mockupfile (all lowercase). This shouldn't affect any of you, but let us know if it does!
How do I upgrade?
- Mockups for Desktop: here (you might hit this one-time error if you haven’t updated in a while).
- Mockups for Confluence: here
- Mockups for JIRA: here
- Mockups for XWiki: here
- Mockups for FogBugz: here (onDemand customers: this will go live for you automatically in a few days)
- Web Demo: here
I'm pretty sure we won't do a weekly release next week, and probably not the week after that either. We're working on adding real-time-collaboration to the app (the web-app first, the desktop app will come later), which is an awesome feature. Unfortunately it's a very big change, we have to effectively break everything and put it back together again. Don't worry we've done similar things before. Still, wish us luck! ?
Onward!
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