Comments on: Weekly Release: a nice basket of low-hanging fruit

By: samson

samson — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:52:56 +0000

Thank you! Yes #2 (arrow heads bug) seems fixed in the pre-release.

#1 is really up to individual preferences. I personally like the old method better. Especially when I use it in storyboard mockups, it attracts enough attention so people know we are now in a different tab. The new way is too subtle. I’ve got a few clients who were slightly confused by this change.

The best way is to make it an option: subtle highlight vs. colored highlight. Or, at least make the new highlight more significant.

Just my two cents. Thank you for the great work.

[Hi Samson, how's this? http://skitch.com/balsamiq/n8dtu/easier-to-see-selection-on-tabs - I made the borders thicker and the label moves a little bit towards "the content area" when selected]

By: samson

samson — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:13:16 +0000

I found some weird behavior since upgrading to this build. For example:

1. The green highlight of selected tab is gone. Now it’s harder to see which tab is current.

2. Save a mockup, close Balsamiq, and re-open the mockup, sometimes the arrow heads are gone — they become line-only, or one of the 2 heads is gone, or flipped. Very strange.

I’m using the Windows desktop version.

Hi Samson, #1 is true. I hope you’ll grow to like the new look. If not, let us know and we’ll see what we can do.

#2 I just fixed in the pre-release version: http://www.balsamiq.com/products/mockups/desktop/next – I’ll merge it into the main build with the next release (in a day or two). Sorry about that.

By: Portia

Portia — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:02:15 +0000

Is selected tab highlighting gone for good?

Love the button backgrounds!

[Never say never, but that's the plan, yes. Less color = less distractions. I hope you'll grow to like the new look. Otherwise, let us know!]

By: Stefan

Stefan — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:56:03 +0000

Great news!

Am I now able to use my Mockup templates in Dropbox, too ?

How should the path be for this scenario ?

Stefan.

[Hi Stefan, is this what you’re looking for? http://is.gd/4Niph

By: Weekly release: some of them they were really low-hanging - Napkee - make your mockups come alive

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:38:10 +0000

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By: Rico

Rico — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:33:43 +0000

Backgrounds for buttons? Awesome!!! I don’t have to use boxes for that anymore. You might call these low hanging fruit, but they will go a long way. Great.

By: Michael Bourque

Michael Bourque — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:36:54 +0000

There is a minor bug with the new icon border. By default the border is checked but new icons don’t get inserted with border. You need to toggle the state twice to get it to work.

[Yup, working on it. Thanks Michael!]

By: rainwebs

rainwebs — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:14:56 +0000

Well done, Peldi!