Hey there!
A quick post for a micro, yet exciting release: FlairBuilder 1.0.1.
Following the many cool things brought to you by the first release, there are three main improvements in this release: wireframe annotations, scrollbars support and improved viewer. Here they are one by one.
Wireframe annotations
I added a new Callout component that you can add to your wireframes and attach a comment to it. Your comments will be displayed as tooltips to those Callout components. To edit the Callout number and comment just double click it. You’ll figure out quickly what you have to input.
You can use the “Show/Hide annotations” menu entry or F4 shortcut key to toggle the visibility of Callout components. I’ll soon update the online viewer of offer the same option, too.
Scrollbars support
For components like DataGrid, TextArea or Tree, you will sometime want to communicate that users will need to scroll. Now it’s possible to show that using the new scrollbars setting in the Properties view.
Improved online wireframe viewer
There are two ways your clients can view an wireframe using the online viewer.
1. The first one is sending by email the FBP file produced with FlairBuilder, file that the intended audience can open using the big centered Open button of the online viewer: http://www.flairbuilder.com/viewer.
2. The second one is to upload the file on your own server, and then send your reviewers an URL like this:
http://www.flairbuilder.com/viewer/?url=YOUR_OWN_URL_HERE .
Currently, the safest is the first one. The second option implies that the URL should be visible to flairbuilder.com server and this is not always the case. However, I am working hard on providing more flexible options to ease the collaboration process. Trust me on this one! 
As a side note, FlairBuilder just got a review from the popular Wireframes Magazine. You can read it here. Thanks Jakub Linowski!
This should be all for now.
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Glad to see that you’re getting things moving forward, but when I download from the link above I get version 1.0 which I already have rather than the new 1.0.1.
This is something I sometimes forget to update. I surely need to simplify the release procedure!
Thanks for pointing it out. BTW, when starting the application with a previous version, doesn’t it notify you
about the available update?