WireframeSketcher Forum

Re: screen level scetch/clean layout setting

Peter Severin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:49:00 -0000

Hi Tamas,

Thank you for your kind words. You can change the theme per screen. To do so, click in an empty area in the screen editor and then change the Theme property in Properties View.

screen level scetch/clean layout setting

Tam�s — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:23:00 -0000

Hi!

I am a new user of this great tool, I use it as a plugin for eclipse.

The only thing I miss sofar is that I can not set the layout for screen level. For example you would need this feature if some of your screens represent functional design (scetch layout) and others are more complex and represent layout design as well (clean layout).

Can such a working expected in further releases?

Thanks and keep up good work,

Tam�s

Re: no links shown in storyboard when using screen components

Peter Severin — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:39:00 -0000

Basti,

You are right, this is a bug. I didn't realise you were talking about screen flows and tried to test presentation and PDF export (which are working fine). I'll look into fixing it.

Re: no links shown in storyboard when using screen components

basti — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:10:00 -0000

Hi Peter,

thank you for explanation.

If I add the screen components I see the links, but of course between this "template screens" and not between the "real screens" using the templates. I hadn't added my screen components to the story board, as in my case they are only templates I use to minimize redundancy, because WireFrameSketcher as far as I know does not support direct UI interactions (e.g. a page with an "expand button" which makes visible an additionally panel).

So I have to simulate such interactions by creating two screen which are almost identically. To avoid this duplication at least partially, I use a screen component (within assets) to share all common features of the page, including page links to other pages (screens).

Now for me it would be more reasonable NOT to include such "helper" screen components to the story board (wich will likely be used for customer presentations, as it is some kind of "internal design" for the Wireframe tool, not for the real solution and could irritate the customer.

Instead it would be nice, if the screenflow view could show links of used components (like screen components) even if they are not included within story board. Or, alternatively, to have some possibility to set some "internal" state for such screens, a little bit like the "mark as annotation" for the widgets.

best regards, Basti

Re: no links shown in storyboard when using screen components

Peter Severin — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:12:00 -0000

Hi Basti,

Thank you for your interest in WireframeSketcher and for your kind words!

Can you describe in more details what you are trying to do an where exactly do you see links being ignored? As a general rule, you need to make sure that the target screen of every link is also part of the storyboard. This is required if you need to make links work in PDF or HTML documents.

no links shown in storyboard when using screen components

basti — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:52:00 -0000

first of all i would like to say tanks for this very impressive, helpful and stable tool!

Right now I am evaluating it as possible sketching tool for preparation of a web ui change within my current project.

I noticed the possibility of using screen components as some kind of page masters to avoid duplications. I love this feature very much, especially the opportunity to overwrite parts of this component afterward!

Now i noticed the following behavior within the story board: in the page flow window all links within screens are ignored, if they are defined within a reused screen component. This is sad to me, as it hides important information from the story board.

Is this an accident / bug or intentionally behavior?

Thank you very much in advance, Basti

Re: Custom assets

Peter Severin — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 05:53:00 -0000

Thanks Chris, I really think that SVGs can add a lot of flexibility. I am working on some enhancements that allow to control how SVGs resize (9 slice scaling and similar). So it will be possible to create SVG images that look and resize like standard widgets.

Re: menus

Peter Severin — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 05:50:00 -0000

Barrie,

WireframeSketcher is a tool for static wireframes so it does not handle interactivity. A standard way to do what you want is to create multiple screens that show different states. You can link them together for a click-through prototype. Use components to avoid screen duplication. Any screen can act as a component (master) so you can easily create screen variations. Let me know if this works for you.

Re: Possible to change location of 'asset' folder?

Peter Severin — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 05:45:00 -0000

Hi Christoph,

Thank you for your kind words :)

There is no option to change the location of "assets" folder. I have this request on my todo list so I'll bump it's priority. You can also try using linked folders. Eclipse lest you do it in Folder creation wizard. Another option is to use symbolic links (junctions on Windows) on your file system. Let me know if this works for you.

Re: menus

Barrie — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:31:00 -0000

Thanks for the response, I was more thinking of something that would close when you were not on it, thereby also allowing what was behind it to be seen.

Unless I am missing something, the popup widget always displayed in its expanded state?

Re: menus

Barrie Hando — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:46:00 -0000

I guess what I was looking for though was one that collapses out of the way, as with it allways expanded it kind of takes away from seeing whats behind it.

i suppose that crosses into the mid-fidelity area of prototyping i bet though.

Re: Custom assets

Chris — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:35:00 -0000

This works great! I was worried once I started looking for some specific graph wireframes, but being able to dump an SVG in the assets directory is nice.

Possible to change location of 'asset' folder?

Christoph — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:30:00 -0000

Hi all,

I really like Wireframesketcher. It is a lot smoother than another mockup program implemented with Adobe Air ;)

I just wondered if there is any possibility to change the location of the 'asset' folder. By default the 'asset' folder needs to be located as a root folder in the project.

Currently I'm working in a Java Webproject and I would like to have the 'asset' folder in project/documentation/ui/assets.

Is this possible?

Thank you in advance, Christoph

Re: menus

Peter Severin — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 04:49:00 -0000

Barrie, take a look at Popup widget. It's a vertical menu with linkable items.

menus

Barrie — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:32:00 -0000

excuse my ignorance, but is there a way to display menus with sub menus.

I was specifically looking for a vertical drop down menu with items that would link to other screens?

please advise

Re: Custom assets

Peter Severin — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 16:46:00 -0000

Take a look at these iPhone templates. They are based on SVG images. Note that SVGs are rendered automatically using Clean or Sketchy themes. Try them out and let me know if this is what you are looking for.

Re: Custom assets

David — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 16:35:00 -0000

Thanks for the tip, but I'm not sure if that's what I am looking for.

The hand drawn style of the wireframesketcher is exactly what I want, and I've done many wireframes in this style before (using illustrator).

I would like to take these existing illustrator wireframes that I have and reuse them as assets in WireframeSketcher. How can I do this? I don't just want to use them as images, but rather as widgets that can be resized properly etc.

Is this possible, and if so, how?

Re: Custom assets

Peter Severin — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 12:14:00 -0000

Hi David,

Thank you for your kind words. Here's the section in User Guide that describes how to use components: http://wireframesketcher.com/help/help.html#working_with_screens/working_with_components

Let me know if you need more information.

Custom assets

David — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 12:01:00 -0000

Hi, is it possible to create your own assets? If so, can you please point me to a good article/tutorial on how to do it?

Btw, I really like the program! =)

Re: Search and replace?

Peter Severin — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 14:55:00 -0000

Tom,

I think that what you are describing is already there. You can double-click a component and override some of its properties. See this blog post for more details: http://wireframesketcher.com/blog/2011-10-03-overriding-component-properties-font-size-wiki-syntax.html

This approach should work well for your example with different selection. It's true that it doesn't work that well for text, since when you modify text, the text is copied locally and is no longer inherited.

Maybe a possible solution would be to use a general purpose text tool to do search and replace. WireframeSketcher uses XML format which you could process as text. For example Eclipse IDE provides such a tool under Search menu, and it can be used to Search and Replace across multiple files. WireframeSketcher Studio does not expose this tool, but it could... Then there are other options like sed.