Release: Mouse enter/out, Import from Clipboard

Hello again, everyone!

This week release brings a few very exciting and handy updates to your beloved prototyping tool.

More mouse events

You are now able to attach Mouse over and Mouse out events to components like Image, Icon, Button, Rectangle and Pointy Rectangle. This opens the door for prototyping even more features, such as drop-down menus, rich tooltips etc.

(Yeah, I’m 28. )

For instance you could use Mouse enter on an image to display a Floating Pane. Or you could flip though the cards of a card stack, just like the carousel on Yahoo.com home page.

If there are more components that you need them to support these events, just let me know.

Focus on and Focus out

The text input components also have their specific events now. You can attach actions to event where those components gain or loose focus. For instance, in a form you’d like to have tooltip displayed when the user is typing inside a text box.

Import from Clipboard

In the latest release I included this intermediary step when importing an image into FlairBuilder so the image could preserve the original size. Now, I have added a supplementary that I’m sure you will simply love. That is: If you have an image in your system clipboard, you can simply tell click on the left-bottom button in the image import pop-up and have that image used. As simple as that.

The awesome thing about this little feature is that you can simply browse the web for your images, right click in your browser and choose ‘Copy image…’ from the context menu, and there you go: You can then import it straight into FlairBuilder. I hope you’ll enjoy this addition.

Smarter DataGrid Column Sizing

What used to be a real pain for some of you (Thanks so much Caroline for crying out loud about this! ), is now gone. Simply said, you are now able to resize the columns individually in design mode and the sizes you set will remembered. If you make changes to the number of columns, FlairBuilder will compute the column widths itself. But if you don’t, it will use the same widths as you set them.

There is one catch though. You will not be able to click and drag the datagrid by it’s header. The header is actually functional now, except sorting and column reordering which were working bad and I preferred to take out before they get fixed properly. Let me know if you have any issues with this. My ears are wide opened.

Make way through the clutter

There are times when you want to position something small, like a Label or an Icon into an already crowded space. And what happens is that the snap feature will get very annoying, preventing you from properly positioning that element you’re moving around. Well, this little new feature will help you in these situations:

You can now hold SHIFT while dragging a component around to temporarily disable snapping. I find it really, really useful, but in the end it’s you that decide. Please let me know what you think about it.

The Home Page New Look

The home page of this very website got a bit of an update. I changed the background color of the Tour slideshow to make it less vivid. Also I put a lot more text in each slide. I hope that new visitors will get more info which hopefully will get them enough interested to download and try FlairBuilder.

This should be all for these week release. There are still tons and tons of things on my TODO list, but only that much that a man can do during a day time. I intend to spend more time on the website and on getting FlairBuilder known to more people. If you have ideas on how I could do that, please let me know.

Unknown, here I come!

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