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MockupScreens Changelog

What's new in MockupScreens 4.97

Oct 11, 2017
  • Tables can have “row selector” now, like in Excel (the left-most quasi-column).
  • If you need fixed-width columns, uncheck the new “Grow columns with text” option in table’s properties.
  • Tables can have “filter row”, that is visually distinct from normal rows.
  • Beside that, Line widget is transformed to Separator. It can be horizontal, vertical or free (i.e. plain old line like before).

New in MockupScreens 4.93 (Dec 2, 2015)

  • New:
  • New skin: Mac OSX “El Capitan”.
  • Improvements:
  • You can zoom in and out using Ctrl/Cmd + mouse wheel.
  • Added 107 new icons in Font Awesome icon set.
  • Fixes:
  • Now you can add 3rd party icon set with images that do contain an alpha channel.

New in MockupScreens 4.92 (Sep 9, 2015)

  • New:
  • Printing mockups in full-page.
  • Improved:
  • Portable version contains its own temp folder now.
  • All in-program links now point to the new website.
  • Fixes:
  • After long session with really big project, MockupScreens could slow or even crash. This is greatly remedied now, but still not completely fixed.
  • Consecutive space characters were not preserved in exports.
  • If computer crashed during the autosave, index.json file could get corrupted, preventing MockupScreens from starting.

New in MockupScreens 4.91 (May 27, 2015)

  • New:
  • Autosave (recovers project automatically after crash)
  • Improvements:
  • 3-5 times better performance
  • When moving or resizing, complete widgets are rendered only after the action
  • Lasso select disregards locked widgets or widgets derived from masters
  • Fixes:
  • Comment numbering was broken in some situations
  • Selection problems fixed
  • Corrected Frame widget top padding for Windows 7 & 8 skin
  • Widget’s spatial index wasn’t updated correctly after moving via keyboard

New in MockupScreens 4.90 (Apr 9, 2015)

  • Improvements:
  • When a widget is selected, just start typing to change its caption.
  • Beside ‘font-awesome’, original icons are also available now.
  • A newly created project is not marked as having changes while still empty.
  • Margins on text in Table widget was too big.
  • Increased number of projects on “Open Recent” list.
  • Fixes:
  • Keyboard navigation with TAB key in Find panel didn’t work correctly.
  • Double-clicking on .mck file opening a blank project.
  • Troubles with refreshing menus etc.
  • Masters don’t change names of screens when opening older projects.
  • Table resizing after closing the Table Editor.
  • Text alignment problems in labeled widgets.

New in MockupScreens 4.89 (Feb 24, 2015)

  • New:
  • Use # suffix to indicate item selection in Dropdown, List, and Tree widgets.
  • Commands to distribute widgets evenly.
  • Improved:
  • Ability to open multiple MockupScreens instances on Mac by double-clicking .mck project files.
  • Image can be exported from an Image widget.
  • Toolbar toggle buttons for controlling panels’ visibility.
  • Field and Text widgets default vertical alignment is top-aligned now.
  • Comments are disabled on Master screens.
  • “Snap to Grid” option added to the View menu.
  • Deleting a screen asks for confirmation.
  • “Group” context action is disabled when only a group is selected.
  • Moved maximum comment dimensions options to the “General” tab.
  • Applying a master should not rename the screen.
  • Fixes:
  • Fix how special system folder locations are retrieved (some conditions stopped MockupScreens from starting).
  • Now able to select Screen using ctrl key when other widget(s) are already selected.
  • Fixed issues with the CheckBox.
  • Images from external program can be dragged and dropped onto the current screen in MockupScreens.
  • Fixed issues related to widget-alignment commands.
  • Fixed issues related to widgets movement and selection.

New in MockupScreens 4.88 (Dec 16, 2014)

  • New:
  • Hide or show editor panels: Widgets toolbar (Ctrl/Cmd+1), Screens tree (Ctrl/Cmd+2), Property panel (Ctrl/Cmd+3).
  • New online help (instead of offline, which was quite dated).
  • Improvements:
  • Editing multiple widgets is now done via property panel (instead of separate dialog).
  • Tab widget has larger initial size.
  • Frame widget has larger initial size.
  • Tree widget has larger initial size.
  • Icon chooser remembers selected icon set and category.
  • Fixes:
  • In settings,”Display Icons and Badges” is now “Display Badges” and affects Badges only.
  • Deselecting a widget (from multiple selection) by clicking while holding down the Ctrl/Cmd key.
  • Incorrect font size during widget creation (before a widget was actually placed on canvas).
  • Form’s web toolbar was incorrect in Mac OSX skin.
  • Fixed keyboard shortcuts for font formatting: bold (Ctrl/Cmd+B), italic (Ctrl/Cmd+I), underline (Ctrl/Cmd+U).
  • Fixed keyboard shortcuts for text alignment: left (Ctrl/Cmd+L), right (Ctrl/Cmd+R), center (Ctrl/Cmd+E).
  • When annotated widget was clicked, its number indicator was displayed behind the selection indicator.
  • In editor, when changing active screens by PageUp / PageDown, Screen tree was not updated accordingly.
  • When a group is selected and has focus: Comments panel and Property panel are disabled.
  • Dropdown caption alignment wasn’t calculated correctly (caption text was overlapping with the dropdown arrow).
  • Incorrect behavior when adding widgets and changing the widget to add.
  • Comments get blank after replace command (only in certain situations).
  • Selected widget can be deleted by Backspace key (again).

New in MockupScreens 4.87 (Nov 18, 2014)

  • New:
  • Icons: Font Awesome set
  • Buttons can have icons now
  • Changes / Improvements:
  • Badges replace Marks
  • Color themes for Badges
  • Image gallery removed (icons does that job now)
  • Fixes:
  • Unintentional wrapping in Text widget
  • Issues with Transform feature
  • Mouse icon displayed for line resize is not correct
  • Find is not highlighting the matching string within widget/comments.
  • Missing info box during widget resize.

New in MockupScreens 4.86 (Oct 7, 2014)

  • New:
  • Export to DOCX format
  • Text formatting in comments.
  • Improvements:
  • Better image quality (300 dpi) when printing
  • Faster program startup
  • Scrolling in editor is more smooth than before
  • Option to reopen last project on startup or not
  • Fixed:
  • Irregular tab widget background color with MacOS and Safari skin
  • Saving a snapshot to file didn’t give an overwrite confirmation
  • Image in grouped widgets was sometimes lost when pasting, saving and otherwise serialising the group

New in MockupScreens 4.85 (Jun 2, 2014)

  • Improvements:
  • Locking widgets in place from Geometry panel
  • Optional captions for images
  • For forms, “Alternate Name” is empty by default
  • For Save dialog, the native Win or Mac dialog is used
  • Fixes:
  • Single-file HTML export now uses the image format selected in HTML export settings
  • Better indenting of word-wrapped lines in Comment bubbles
  • Manual line breaks in comments are now preserved in HTML export
  • Mac: File overwrite confirmation was sometimes shown twice

New in MockupScreens 4.84 (May 8, 2014)

  • Improvements:
  • Tabs are bigger by default.
  • Temporary border for easier placement of widgets.
  • In labeled widgets, labels now “grow” to the left when text grows.
  • Snapshots now use the same grid options as seen on the canvas.
  • Fixes:
  • Unlinking from Master wasn’t copying Form attributes properly.
  • Scrollbars were not displayed immediately for some widgets when changed.
  • Tab key wasn’t handled properly in labeled widest’ properties.
  • Mac: Gallery and custom image buttons on Image properties looked weird.

New in MockupScreens 4.83 (Apr 8, 2014)

  • Improvements:
  • Export to HTML now shows confirmation message when overwriting existing folder.
  • When group of widgets is dragged by mouse, their alignment regards the whole group and not individual widgets.
  • Radio buttons can be switched between horizontal and vertical layout.
  • Text wrapping for Radio buttons’ labels.
  • Radio buttons’ labels can be positioned either on the left or on the right of the radios.
  • Labels of compound ie. “Labeled” widgets can be positioned either on the left or above.
  • Tab captions have wider margins now.
  • Option for Slideshow to toggle Window titles on or off (accessible via Options panel).
  • Fixes:
  • Several widgets had “lost” their borders with 4.82 depending on skins, which is corrected now.
  • “Revert to Saved” command was showing incorrect confirmation message.
  • Find was distorting text on screen in certain situations.
  • Searching for special characters could produce unexpected results.
  • Resizing or moving widgets weren’t always correctly accounted for when using Undo or Revert to Saved commands later.
  • On Mac, project wasn’t opening in browser automatically, after exporting to HTML.
  • Replace wasn’t always working for compound widgets (Table, Tree, labeled widgets).
  • On some circumstances, replacing text could break comment numbering.

New in MockupScreens 4.82 (Mar 12, 2014)

  • New:
  • Progress Bar widget
  • Improvements:
  • Option to turn off navigating screens in Slideshow via left/right mouse-click
  • All options from Advanced tab for Master are now either inherited or editable
  • When group is selected, new screen is placed in that group
  • Fixes:
  • Adding new subgroup on Masters tree now works correctly
  • Deselecting a row in a Table was terribly non-intuitive
  • Undo was not working properly after transforming a widget to another
  • Copying screens to clipboard was not preserving images (ie. when copying a screen from one project to another)
  • Widgets can’t get positioned outside of canvas
  • Line widget orientation was changing when changing geometry via “Change Multiple Widgets” dialog
  • Transform tool was not carrying the text from Link to Text/Radio widgets
  • Select all was not working from menu after just placing a widget
  • Mac: Copy/paste text between MockupScreens and other programs didn’t work
  • Splash page is displayed until MockupScreens has fully initalized itself
  • Table widget sometimes haven’t updated the property field after editing
  • HTML export had problems with links because of Tab widget incorrectly interpreting them

New in MockupScreens 4.81 (Feb 19, 2014)

  • New:
  • Search/Replace in both widgets and comments.
  • Improvements:
  • Much better performance when typing text in complex screens.
  • Moderately better performance when selecting widgets on complex screens.
  • Registered users can change license key from new “Renew license” window, instead of going to “Buy the full version” window which was confusing.
  • New images are inserted with their original size and aspect ratio.
  • Images have new option “Restore original size” on “Geometry” panel.
  • When adding a new widget, mouse pointer positions at the widget’s right-bottom corner, which is much more practical for resizing etc.
  • Fixes:
  • Background color for dialogs no longer incorrectly gets into the corners.
  • Occasionally dropdowns (e.g. skin chooser) stopped working temporarily.
  • On Mac, “Show tips” popup was not displayed when launching.
  • Captionless Dialogs had fain “ghost” lines in BW and MSIE skins

New in MockupScreens 4.80 (Jan 28, 2014)

  • New:
  • Dialog – new widget, in all skins.
  • Improvements:
  • Window background color can be changed in Mac OSX skin.
  • Window background color can be changed in Safari skin.
  • Custom colors persist between sessions.
  • When root group is selected, menu item Drawing/Rename group is disabled.
  • Most widgets now have 100pix default width.
  • Added splash screen on startup, which shows MockupScreens version and whether it’s registered or not.
  • Better rendering of shadows etc when canvas is zoomed-in.
  • Right-click shortcut menus were reorganized and some items renamed.
  • Right-aligned text now grows to the left, when the wrapping is off.
  • Fixes:
  • Pasting an image from other applications now works correctly for: jpeg, gif, bmp, png, tiff, ico.
  • Application doesn’t hang any more when user closes the Edit Group Name window.
  • User wasn’t able to select “Master Screens” node or any group under it.
  • Dropdown caption is now properly aligned in property panel.
  • User couldn’t select general (unnumbered) comment.
  • Property panel was empty if initialy loaded project has a widget group as a selection.
  • There were instances when user wasn’t able to select a Mark widget.
  • Custom background color produced visible borders for some widgets.
  • “Tip of the Day” window sometimes got behind the main window when user switched between MockupScreens and other applications.
  • Other:
  • Migrated to much newer versions of Python and wxPython.

New in MockupScreens 4.75 (Dec 18, 2013)

  • New:
  • Calendar widget.
  • Improvements:
  • Compound widgets now can be resized vertically.
  • Comments are not copied when copying and pasting a screen.
  • Improved dynamic canvas resizing. Canvas size is not reduced while the mouse is being dragged, better usability during widget manipulation in those cases.
  • The label part of compound widgets and the field part of Label.Field now can be aligned vertically.
  • For screens, the Paste operation does not keep the original comments. Added a Paste With Comments contextual menu item with keyboard shortcut Control + Shift + V to keep these.
  • Added scrollbar options for Label.List widget.
  • Better compound widgets advanced properties panel layout.
  • Fixes:
  • The layout of compound widgets could be broken when changing the font size.
  • Fixed compound widgets fit-to-text behavior.
  • The canvas didn’t scroll when while moving a widget with the keyboard..
  • Comments of widgets in a group are correctly handled in screen snapshots and document exports.
  • The last main toolbar font size selection propagated to the next selected widget.
  • Pasted widgets now use the grid size as the offset unit, this helps to keep relative positions of a pasted group of widgets intact when moving them, while snap to grid is enabled.
  • Pasting a standard screen or group into master screens didn’t work.
  • Under some circumstances, the last screens tree thumbnail was not shown entirely .
  • When copying a screen derived from a master, the master’s widgets were always placed over the standard screen ones.
  • The contextual menu key is now properly handled in screen trees.
  • Fixed “scroll to” behavior of pasted screens. The screen tree would sometimes jump to top after pasting.
  • Fixed pasting groups of screens. The screen names were not altered, and pasting a group when a master screen was selected didn’t work.

New in MockupScreens 4.74 (Nov 19, 2013)

  • New:
  • Link widget
  • Improvements:
  • Changed the font size of comments in exported documents from 14px to 11px.
  • Renamed the Edit->Toggle Comment Visibility menu item to Edit->Toggle Comments
  • Improved the naming of elements in the change multiple widgets dialog.
  • New groups are automatically selected and scrolled to in screen trees.
  • The font toolbar and the change multiple widget dialog now modify the sizes of both fonts in multiwidgets
  • Default value of compound widget label is “Label” instead of “Text”.
  • Fixes:
  • Thumbnails weren’t refreshed after applying or unlinking master screens.
  • Thumbnails weren’t refreshed after setting the Form background color until some user action.
  • The background color property editor value gets updated when a master screen is applied or unlinked.
  • The suggested title and file name is not longer cropper when exporting a project with dots in it’s name.
  • Under some specific circumstances, the selection operation didn’t worked properly after an undo operation.
  • Word wrap was incorrectly wrapping punctuation characters
  • Label.Dropdown appearance was broken when using an empty value for the dropdown.
  • Multiwidgets appearance was broken when using an empty caption.
  • Applying a master screen is now correctly undo-ed.
  • Thumbnails of affected regular screens are properly refreshed when a master screen is deleted.
  • Fixed how the line envelope is calculated. The perpendicular vector was incorrectly calculated, which caused selection issues in certain situations.

New in MockupScreens 4.73 (Nov 14, 2013)

  • New:
  • Windows 8 skin.
  • Improvements:
  • Change multiple widgets dialog now uses the same font size control as the toolbar.
  • Form maximum size increased from 1600*1600px to 7680*4320px
  • Image widget property editor layout updated.
  • Loading an incompatible version project now shows a dialog asking to upgrade to a newer version.
  • Font properties now can be set for compound widgets.
  • Custom colors in all color selectors are remembered for the current session.
  • Windows installer and uninstaller checks if a MockupScreens process is running in order to avoid corrupted installs.
  • Better attribute value management for masters Forms:
  • - All master form attributes get copied when you apply or create a screen from master.
  • - If a master form changes, changes propagate to the dependent screens.
  • - If you make changes to a form on a dependent screen, these changes persist (ie. they don’t get overridden when master form changes propagate).
  • Screens tree new items are now placed regarding the current selection.
  • When adding a new screen or master screen, the relevant screen tree control scrolls to it.
  • Scrolling is now possible while reordering items in the screens tree. In windows the panel will scroll if you drag an item near the top or the bottom. In MacOS you can use the mouse/trackpad scroll function while dragging the item.
  • If “Show Marks” editor option is disabled, and an user tries to ad a mark, a warning dialog is shown.
  • The about dialog shows the registration status, and the registration dialog confirms registration when a valid serial is entered.
  • Improved the layout of the master screens screens tree contextual menu.
  • Multiple selected widgets now can be resized at the same time.
  • A master screen now can be selected with a double click in the master screen selection dialog.
  • Thumbnails rendering is now much faster when quickly changing skins.
  • When adding a new item into a group, the group is now expanded.
  • The state (expanded/collapsed) of the screens trees groups is now stored in the project files.
  • Renamed View->Display Comments menu item to View->Toggle Comment Visibility
  • System information is written to a separate file so it wouldn’t get overwritten by the rotating log file handler.
  • Fixes:
  • The dialog asking to show marks if these are disabled and the user tries to add one, is now shown just one time for each mark.
  • Now it’s not possible to select a widget by clicking on the comment position when show comments option is disabled.
  • Master groups are no longer added to the main screens tree when imported a project.
  • Unicode and special characters are better handled in exported documents.
  • Toolbar font options are now disabled for widgets which does not support them.
  • Font selector “Default” item now works as expected.
  • Fixed some issues with very large font sizes.
  • The application could crash when printing if the spooler service was not started.
  • Undoing a new screen operation now does keep showing that screens if there aren’t other screens in the project.
  • The fit to text button in the geometry properties tab is only enabled if the selected widget uses text.
  • A widget’s position sometimes changed during a resize operation.

New in MockupScreens 4.71 (Jul 15, 2013)

  • New:
  • Printing in landscape orientation.
  • Better quality images in exports/printing
  • Improvements:
  • All skins use now black as default widget text color.
  • When printing, images are now horizontally centered.
  • Font size now can be entered manually. The control now uses a more standard list of predefined font size.
  • Comments now can be deleted via the comment “bubble” contextual menu.
  • Undo manager now tracks skin changes.
  • Simplified scenario export dialog.
  • Renamed “Jump to Screen” to “Link” in widget properties.
  • Improved slideshow toolbar layout.
  • The 30-day trial period is now restarted each time a newer version is installed.
  • Fixes:
  • Rounded corners where not drawn properly in forms.
  • Windows 7 Skin now uses an Internet Explorer 8 web toolbar.
  • In some rare circumstances images were not shown in the print preview.
  • Text widget’s size can now be reduced by direct manipulation beyond the automatic best size if word wrapping is enabled.
  • Properties panel select all shortcut didn’t selected it’s text.
  • On MacOS prevented the top windows from being raised over already open modal dialogs on application reopen.
  • Under some rare circumstances, Mark panel is displayed though Mark widget is no longer selected.
  • Comments marks where shown in in snapshots when the related option was toggled off.
  • The undo button become active after loading a project.
  • Comments were displayed in HTML/Print/PDF/RTF exported file though “Don’t Print Comments” option was selected for these formats.
  • Scenario export didn’t asked for overwrite confirmation.
  • Under some rare circumstances, the application crashed on exit.
  • The application crashed on start up if Tahoma font was not installed in the system.
  • Mac dmg now displays correct version.
  • Other minor fixes.

New in MockupScreens 4.70 (Jun 5, 2013)

  • New:
  • Export to MS Word (RTF).
  • Improvements:
  • An image widget will be created when copying and pasting an image file or image data into a form.
  • Windows installer supports per-user and site-wide installs.
  • When overwriting a file during PDF or RTF export, user is asked for confirmation.
  • Several screens trees usability improvements. Added a “New Master” button.
  • Increased the height of widgets’ multiline properties inputs.
  • Moved the import and export menu items to the file menu).
  • Added “Select All” option to the context menu and the edit menu.
  • When exporting to PDF or RTF, a sensible output filename is suggested based on what is being exported (project, scenario or screen).
  • Added node tooltips to the screen tree saying which master screen is applied.
  • Improved the scaling of images when exporting to PDF. Exported images uses now 96DPI resolution.
  • Some Minor Print/Export dialog improvements.
  • Fixes:
  • Now derived screens form dimensions are not overridden by the master ones in the exported documents.
  • Widget groups from master screens now can’t be moved.
  • Windows uninstaller now deletes shortcuts properly.
  • Resize and align tools ignore selected widgets from master screens.
  • Fixed several minor undo feature issues.
  • The cut, copy and paste operations in the main menu take into account the master screens control, and so the keyboard shortcuts there work correctly.
  • Fixed pasting to a screen tree with no screen selected.
  • In screens tree groups are no longer allowed to be dragged inside themselves or their descendant groups.
  • Several minor stability and performance improvements.

New in MockupScreens 4.60 (Jun 5, 2013)

  • Improvements:
  • Improved and simplified “Change Multiple Widgets” dialog.
  • Screens trees reordering visual improvements.
  • Pasted screens naming improvements in order to avoid duplicate names.
  • Added a “Fix to Text” contextual option for widgets.
  • Improved undo functionality for widgets font size changes.
  • The last used custom image folder is stored during a program run. If such a folder is not stored, double-clicking the image opens the gallery; otherwise it opens the custom image folder.
  • Images are now shown in screens thumbnails.
  • Improved the usability of widget’s resize handles.
  • Lot’s of minor usability improvements.
  • Fixes:
  • Updated send feedback url.
  • Fixed and improved color selectors.
  • Lot’s of minor stability and performance improvements.

New in MockupScreens 4.50 (Jun 5, 2013)

  • New MockupScreens 4.50 brings three proper web skins for your mockups: plain “corporate” web skin, a more colorful (but not too much) corporate web skin, and more informal yet business looking web skin.
  • All three skins come in two flavors: Microsoft Internet Explorer look and feel, and Safari look and feel. Skins are free for existing MockupScreens users. Skins are simply part of MockupScreens 4.50.

New in MockupScreens 4.42 (Jun 5, 2012)

  • New and improved release of popular product for screen prototyping.

New in MockupScreens 4.01 (Apr 8, 2009)

  • New and hugely improved major release of MockupScreens, popular screen prototyping tool for Windows.

New in MockupScreens 3.11 (Jan 7, 2007)

  • Bug fixes and numerous small improvements

New in MockupScreens 3.05 (Sep 19, 2006)

  • Undo/Redo,
  • Copy/Paste,
  • Multiple selection,
  • Basic navigation