DesignerVista.com

[Kumaravel]

DesignerVista 3.0 Released on Feb 24, 2010 with more Products, Features, Controls, Icons and Pictures.


New Products
- Desktop - To prepare GUI Mockups for Microsoft Windows based Desktop Applications
- Web - To prepare GUI Mockups for Websites, Web Applications and Rich Client Applications
- Ribbon - To prepare GUI Mockups for Microsoft Office Style Ribbon Applications
- Sketch - To prepare Low Fidelity GUI Mockups ( Independent of Look and feel themes ) for Desktop and Web Applications.

New Features
- Page Template Support - Allows users to create a Master page and refer that page in other pages;
Changes made in Master page will be automatically reflected. No need to duplicate the common page contents.
- Theme Support - Supports Vista, Pencil, Plain, Sketch, Pattern Look and Feel themes. Users can create
new themes or duplicate existing themes and customize them.
- System Templates Support - Ready-To-Use Predefined system GUI designs
- Product Selection and Launch - Allows users to open other products.
- Size to Fit To Text Width - Adjusts the control width according to the total width of the text.
- Removed Toolbars and Moved to ToolWindow - Simplified UI with one toolbar and Properties window.
- Added Page Menu - Page Related commands such as add page, delete page etc, are available in page Menu
- View Options in Icon Select Dialog - You can view icons as "16x16", "32x32", "Thumbnails", "List Item Views"
- View Options in Shapes Explorer - You can view controls in Shapes Explorer as "Icons Only",
"Icons and Text" and "List Items"
- Pressing a character starts inline text editing - Just press Spacebar or any alphabet character to start
edit a text in a control if that control supports inline editor.
- "Show All" Button in Control Search Dialog - Allows to see and select all the control names in a list box.
- Text Format
Bullets and Numbers
Option to show the first line as bold header
Justify text
Specify indent space for the first line.
- Option to turn on/off header and footer in Page Header and Footer Dialog
- Color Panel Changes - Shows ribbon theme colors; HTML Color Selection dialogs displays colors with description or
colors only
- Tooltip in Icon Selection Dialogs shows the actual size of the icon/image
- FlowList Items can be highlighted or removed - See Flow List edit dialog
- "Selected" property added to the controls.
- Tabbed Pane, Outlookbar, Floor Tabbed Pane - Users can select image file;
Image size can be specified; Tab Item can be linked to a page.
- Notes - Users can add notes to any control for later reference.

Features Enhancements and Bug Fixes
- Menus are rearranged for easy to use
- Help system is improved
- FlowList Layout Dialog modified - Simplified UI
- Shows "Native" Image File Selection dialog - Users can view the image thumbnails, icon views etc.
- Recent Documents Menu Items is not visible after close and reopen application - fixed.
- Shortcut for "group" and "ungroup" is clashing with other commands. - fixed.


New Images/Icons/Pictures
- Images for Ribbonbar Controls Design
- Website Common Images
- Abstract, Building, Office, Auto, Health medical, Group People, Customer Support and Education Pictures

New Dialogs
- Balloon Control Properties Edit Dialog
- Arrow Line Control Properties Edit Dialog
- Page Properties Edit Dialog
- Change Font Dialog
- Application Selection and Launch Dialog
- System Templates Dialog
- Theme Selection and Edit Dialog - Sort out themes
- Glossy Background Edit Dialog
- Geometry Bounds, Size, Margin Edit Dialog
- Appearance Properties Dialog
- Scrollbar Properties Edit Dialog
- Control Notes Edit Dialog
- Required Text Tab Page in Text Properties Dialog
- FlowList Layout Dialog - UI Modified
- Dropdown Icon Edit Dialog
- Ribbon Tab Items Edit Dialog
- Ribbon Tab Properties Dialog

Table Enhancements
- Insert Table - Defines number of rows, columns and Table Style
- Insert Control - Insert label, checkbox, radiobutton, buttons, icons, images etc.
- Import Excel CSV Data - Imports Excel CSV data into a table
- Insert Number Series - Insert numbers sequentially for the selected cells
- Insert Random text - Inserts Random Text for the selected cells.
- Change Row and Column Size - Adjusts Row and Column size for the selected rows/cols or All rows/cols
- Cell Properties - Allows to change the properties of a control in a cell.
- Table Properties - Allows to change Horizontal and Vertical Line Color, Intercell spacing properties
- Edit links - You can link a cell to page; During simulation, click on this cell to show that page.
- Table Style preview - Allows you to select Table style. You can see the preview of the style
- Last column resize bug is fixed. You can resize the last column.
- Performance improvement on column resize - Use column header to resize the columns for smooth resize.


Tree Enhancements
- Insert Control - Insert label, checkbox, radiobutton, buttons, icons, images, glossy buttons etc.
- Insert from XML file - Allow you insert any XML data
- Expand All nodes - Expands all nodes in the control
- Collapse all nodes - Collapse all nodes and only root node will be visible.
- Node Move Up and Move Down - You can move a node up/down within a parent.
- Change Node Size Dialog - You can adjusts width and height of all nodes.
- Edit Properties window - Allows to change the properties of a control in a node
- Edit links - You can link a node to page; During simulation, click on this node to show that page.


New - Tabbed Panes
- Ribbon Tabbed Pane
- Ribbon Floor Tabbed Pane
- Ribbon Outlookbar Tabbed Pane

New - Shapes
- Balloon - You can configure tip position, tip size, tip side, background of balloon
- Pentagon - You can configure different styles of pentagon. See Properties window for this control.
- Arrow - You can add split or merge line. You can customize end points with arrows, circles etc.
- Cross Mark - Use this control for delete, remove, unavailable concepts.
- Image Place holder - Use this control for image replacement
- Grid - Displays Horizontal and Vertical lines;
- Ruler - Horizontal and Vertical Ruler can be configured.
- Rating - Rating value can be configures such as 4/6, 3.5/10.2 etc. Any image such as star, square, circle
can be selected
- Theme Color Picker - Theme Color Selection Panel

New - Ribbon Controls
- Ribbon Tabbed Pane
- Application Window
- Collapsible Pane Window
- Ribbon Panel
- Logo Button
- Quick Toolbar
- Ribbon Toolbar
- Ribbon Statusbar
- Ribbon Menu
- Ribbon SubMenu
- Ribbon Floor Tabbed Pane
- Ribbon Outlookbar Tabbed Pane


New - Theme Common Controls
- Label
- Button
- Checkbox
- Radiobutton
- ComboBox
- Progressbar
- Spinner
- Horizontal and Vertical Slider
- Horizontal and Vertical Scrollbar
- Picture
- Image place holder
- Color combobox
- Calculator


New - Annotation Controls
- Arrow lines
- Rounded Square Balloon tooltips
- Oval Balloon tooltips
- Angle Brackets
- Square Brackets
- Flower Bracket
- Braces
- Single Line Side
- Double Line Side
- Notes
- Cross

New Arrow Line
- Users can add split or merge line. Users can customize end points with arrows, circles etc.


New - Templates
Desktop and Ribbon
- Applications - Document Editor, Worksheet, Presentation, Email Client, Notepad, Browser,
License Manager, Account Software GUI Designs
- Common Dialogs - Standard, Close, Apply, TabbedPane Dialogs,
- Application Dialogs - Login, Network Login, Find, Replace, Edit Text, Dual List Selection,
List Edit, License Activation, Shell Command, Software Update Info, Tip of the Day dialogs
- Message Boxes - Confirmation, Yes-No, OK-Cancel, Information, Error, Progress Message Boxes
- Wizards - Installer Wizard
- Toolbars and Menus - Common Toolbars and Menus of Document Editor, Worksheet, Presentation, Email Client and
Database
- Controls - Customized labels, buttons, comboboxes, borders, panels, icons, listboxes, progressbars, shapes,
slides, tabs, text, tables and tree controls.
- About Boxes
- Splash Screens

Web
- Forms - Information Request, Registration, User Comments, Contact Addresses, Payment Method Forms
- About Us - About Us, About Company, At a Glance, Contact Us
- Business - Product Home Page, Products Page, Screenshots, Demo, Buy, Download, Customer Support,
Testimonials, Customers, Services, Media Contact, News and Events, News Update, Business Events,
Partners Program, Press Release, Investor Relations, Supplier Relations, Legal Notices, History,
License, FAQs, Site Map.
- Search Engine Websites - Hoogle, Hoogle Maps, WeTube, Zahoo
- Management - Management, Board of Directors, Executive Committee Pages
- Blogs - Blogs and quick links
- Chat Software GUI
- Browsers GUI
- Websites

Features Removed
- Support for gradient, texture colors for cell controls in Table for performance reasons
- Removed Insert control menus for performance reasons
- Removed Preferences ( Document Save Folder, Image Save Folder are merged )
- Removed Page Properties Window; Moved to Page Properties Dialog
- Removed all the toolbars except standard toolbar; Moved toolbar buttons to "Edit Properties" window.
- Removed "Statistics" and "Tip of the Day" menu item;
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Regards,
Kumaravel Somasundaram,
http://www.DesignerVista.com
The GUI mockup software for Desktop and Web