ForeUI Update History



	Update History The update history of ForeUI is listed below, you can also view the details of update in our blog. Version 2.12 (2010.03.01) Minor update with many bug fixings. Bug_0146: If a folder is nested under a page, it can not be removed. Bug_0147: There is a delay when start drag selecting. Bug_0148: The height of Calendar header is significantly reduced in simulation if the calendar is big. Bug_0149: Double-click the image in group can not change its image source. Bug_0150: Group member A covers B, B may be hidden if A is set to invisible in simulation. Bug_0151: Can not get the specific cell value of table in simulation. Bug_0152: Empty table body can not be painted in simulation. Bug_0153: When dragging window element that contains element group, the group members can not be moved correctly. Bug_0154: The entired Window element are draggable in simulation, it should be limited to header only. Bug_0155: Select a group and press Ctrl+D, that allows adding behavior to group (which should be disabled). Bug_0156: Should not allow deleting the page if all other pages are nested under it. Bug_0157: If page B is nested under page A, remove page A, then undo will meet error. Bug_0158: "Change State" action is not listed for TextEditBox element. Bug_0159: Invisible element in group should be painted semi-transparently in design phase. Version 2.10 (2010.02.10) New feature, enhancements and bug fixings. New Feature: New "Key Down" event for keyboard event processing. New Feature: New "Current_Key_Code" system property for identifying the current pressed key. New Feature: New "Ctrl_Key_State" system property to identify if the CTRL key is pressed. New Feature: New "Alt_Key_State" system property to identify if the ALT key is pressed. New Feature: New "Shift_Key_State" system property to identify if the SHIFT key is pressed. New Feature: New "Focused_Element_Id" system property to retrive the id of element that has focus. New Feature: New element property to represent the id of element. New Feature: Text label element supports border and vertical alignment. New Feature: Access image/DHTML export feature via command line. Enhancement: Switch page in simulation, do not hide current page if the target page does not exist. Enhancement: Shows multiple menu items to launch action editor if right click on multiple elements. Enhancement: Make text content in Table element unselectable for FF, Chrome and Opera. Enhancement: Tool windows can be resized. Enhancement: Allow reseting all parameters in settings window. Enhancement: Allow renaming custom event. Bug_0139: Single row Table with header cause error in simulation. Bug_0140: The "Auto resize element after editing its content" option does not take effect when adding image into button. Bug_0141: Copying page allocates duplicated element ids. Bug_0143: Copy element that contains "Switch Page" action and paste it to new plot, the new plot will contain the old plot data. Bug_0144: Mutirow, encrypt text edit box can not be properly auto resized. Bug_0145: The tree view in page management window may become too narrow if any page has a long title. Version 2.05 (2010.02.01) Minor update, includes some enhancements and bug fixings. Enhancement: Multi-selection support in action editor. Enhancement: Show author name in resource listing view. Bug_0133: V1.xx plot that contains conditional branchings may not be loaded in V2.0 Bug_0134: Loading rectangle element with width=20 or height=20 in V1.xx plot file, the rectangle will be resized. Bug_0135: Create several instances of same custom element, move the newly created element, its action will be messed up. Bug_0136: Single row table (without header) shows nothing in simulation. Bug_0138: Custom event (and its child nodes) can not be pasted. Version 2.00 (2010.01.25) A milestone of ForeUI product, major upgrade. New Feature: New "Windows 7" UI theme for prototyping. New Feature: Integrate with ForeUI user community web site. New Feature: Element category management (show/hide/add/edit/remove category). New Feature: Tree structured page management: support drag and drop. New Feature: Support global properties for interaction definition. New Feature: Support add/trigger custom events for actions reusage. New Feature: Display settings for toolbar icon, toolbar text, action flag and element button size. New Feature: Table element supports "Table Cell Values" property. New Feature: New placeholder element. Enhancement: Table content should not be wrapped, unless '\n' is used. Enhancement: When inputing the target element id, the id list should include ids for group members. Enhancement: Property chooser also allow inputing element id directely. Enhancement: Add page navigation buttons on bottom tool bar. Enhancement: Improved some dialogs UI (page management, plot configure, element selector etc.) Enhancement: Avoid selecting text within table body by double-clicking in the simulation. Enhancement: "Show Message" action can do optional calculation within the message. Enhancement: Allow specifying the loop interval in behavior editor. Enhancement: Adjust the title position for window element. Enhancement: Rectangle, ellipse, triangle and placeholder support line stye (solid, dashed, dot). Bug_0126: The table element with spaces in content will be shows as "&nbsp..." when export html more than one time. Bug_0127: If one row of table element contains less columns than other rows, error occur when exporting to html. Bug_0128: Post commands list is disabled by default, even the post commands are enabled. Bug_0129: ComboBox element can not contain "<", ">" sysmbols. Bug_0130: Delete a master page may cause the page manage window crash. Bug_0131: Page management window should be closed when the plot is closed. Bug_0132: The window icon and title is not aligned well when title contains parenthesis. Version 1.90 (2009.12.28) New features, enhancements and bug fixings. New Feature: Table element supports content scrolling New Feature: Allow setting table cell alignment separately with "<", "=" and ">" at the beginning of text. New Feature: New "Set Cell Value" action for table element. New Feature: Table/List/Tree/Tabs/VerticalTabs elements support "Set Selected Index" action. New Feature: Input the action target element id directly. New Feature: Invoke post commands after DHTML exporting. Enhancement: Avoid selecting header of table element in edit mode. Enhancement: Press Backspace to delete element for non-Mac system. Fixed Bug_0120: Main window may be hidden when click the action button on page management window. Fixed Bug_0122: Calendar element is not displayed correctly in FireFox. Fixed Bug_0123: Tabs/VertcialTabs/Tree/List/Table elements should invoke the handler for "Selection Changed" event when default selection is changed. Fixed Bug_0124: Sometimes Page Up/Down can not switch page in simulation after clicking some element. Fixed Bug_0125: List/Tree element without selected item is not painted correctly in simulation. Version 1.85 (2009.12.14) New features, enhancements and bug fixings. New Feature: New vertical tabs element. New Feature: Page manage window and element selector window can be pinned and keep opened. Enhancement: ComboBox supports "Selected Index" property. Enhancement: ComboBox supports "Selection Changed" event. Enhancement: ComboBox supports "Set Selected Index" action. Enhancement: Ctrl+Click to bring up context menu in Mac. Enhancement: Command+Click to remove element from selection in Mac. Enhancement: Store last modify time in .4ui and .fce files for future usage. Fixed Bug_0117: Page name editing should be stopped when closing the page manage window. Fixed Bug_0118: Page information in status bar is not correct if switching page in "Page Loaded" event handler. Fixed Bug_0119: Empty tab in Tabs element can not be selected in simulation Version 1.80 (2009.11.30) New features, enhancements and bug fixings. New Feature: New "Mouse Over" event for all elements. New Feature: New "Mouse Out" event for all elements. Enhancement: ComboBox becomes interactive in simulation. Enhancement: The default state of radio button and check box changed to "Normal". Fixed Bug_0114: Can not add more cases after defining the switch branching. Fixed Bug_0115: The "Element Clicked" event should also be fired when clicking on the Menu element. Fixed Bug_0116: Should not allow changing plot via Undo/Redo when editing element content. Version 1.77 (2009.11.19) New features, enhancements and bug fixings. New Feature: New arrow line element. New Feature: Specify color of table/list/tree alternate row. Enhancement: Color picker can clear editing color. Fixed Bug_0111: Double-click the .4ui file to open ForeUI, sometimes it may hang. Fixed Bug_0112: The group element can not be smaller than 20x20, ignoring its content's actual size. Fixed Bug_0113: Press Page Up/Down to switch page should not scroll the plot as well. Version 1.75 (2009.11.09) New features, enhancements and bug fixings. New Feature: Handy element selector: tree structure + filter. List elements in tree structure by type Allow filtering the tree with keyword New Feature: double-click image element to choose image. Enhancement: Store image export settings in configure file. Enhancement: Avoid launching multiple instances of application (Windows). Fixed Bug_0110: Can not turn off Auto Resizing behavior on elements in group. Version 1.72 (2009.11.02) New features, enhancements and bug fixings. New Feature: New pie chart element New Feature: New option to set default font of text element Enhancement: Allow turn on/off the auto resizing after element content editing. Enhancement: Post-It should be left-aligned by default. Enhancement: Allow setting element's exact opacity value. Fixed Bug_0106: Post-It element has no content margins. Fixed Bug_0107: Switch branching with numeric cases does not work in FF/Chrome. Fixed Bug_0108: The default font of text element changed in simulation. Fixed Bug_0109: Once select the font for element, can not change it back to <default> font. Version 1.70 (2009.10.26) New features, enhancements and bug fixings. New Feature: New bar chart element. New Feature: New switch flow control for behavior editing. New Feature: Drag and drop support in behavior editor. New Feature: Context menu that provides cut/copy/paste commands in behavior editor. Enhancement: Press Shift to lock aspect ratio when resizing Enhancement: Avoid moving element just after the selecting. Enhancement: Some new hotkeys: ESC to close the text editor ESC to close page manage window Ctrl+X (CMD+X in Mac) to cut node in behavior editor Ctrl+C (CMD+C in Mac) to copy node in behavior editor Ctrl+V (CMD+V in Mac) to paste node in behavior editor Fixed Bug_0101: The background of element chooser should be fully filled with plot's background color Fixed Bug_0102: Some buttons in text editor are hidden when using Windows' native look and feel. Fixed Bug_0103: Item with spaces in MenuBar element is not highlighted correctly. Fixed Bug_0104: Element default font should be the same with the tool's default font. Fixed Bug_0105: Group members' z values are ignored in simulation. Version 1.65 (2009.10.12) New features, enhancements and bug fixings. New Feature: New "Line Chart" element. New Feature: New option to use page title in the image file name. New Feature: Allow setting the scrolling property of iframe element. New Feature: Some new hotkeys: PageUp or PageDown (Fn + Up or Down in Mac) to switch page in edit mode. CTRL + Left or Right (CMD + Left or Right in Mac) to switch selection in edit mode. DELETE (BACKSPACE in Mac) to delete entity in behavior dialog. ESC to close popup window. CTRL + D (CMD + D in Mac) to open behavior dialog. Enhancement: Show page title on bottom-left corner in edit mode. Enhancement: Text edit box has no text content by default. Enhancement: Change the minimum size of image element to 5x5 Enhancement: Move workspace, customized and plot folders to the preferred directory. Fixed Bug_0099: TextEditBox element lists some actions that are not implemented yet. Fixed Bug_0100: IFrame element should have thicker border in hand drawing theme. Version 1.60 (2009.09.28) New features, enhancements and bug fixings. New Feature: New iFrame & Web Browser Elements New Feature: New "Element Hidden" and "Window Closed" events. New Feature: Add note on page (can be exported to PDF as page footer). New Feature: New "Set System Cursor" Action. New Feature: New "Change Size" Action for text box element. New Feature: New "Change Opacity" Action for text box element. New Feature: New "Change Background Color" Action for text box element. New Feature: New "Change Text Color" Action for text box element. Enhancement: Allow manipulating elements on master page from other pages. Enhancement: TextEditBox element does not paint the caret by default. Enhancement: Smarter id allocation. Enhancement: Show page title in the browser status bar. Enhancement: Allow turn on/off the z value auto adjustment when overlapping elements. Fixed Bug_0093: The actions on page level is not updated when involved element id is changed. Fixed Bug_0094: The element id "A_B_C" is regarded as "A_B" when trying to edit the id. Fixed Bug_0095: JS exception when click on Table/List/Tree/Menu/Tabs that has no "Selection Changed" event handler. Fixed Bug_0096: Copy & paste multiple elements, the element id in actions are not mapped correctly. Fixed Bug_0097: "Page Loaded" event handler is invoked twice. Fixed Bug_0098: The master page background is not updated immediately when switching the UI theme. Version 1.57 (2009.09.17) New features, enhancements and bug fixings. New Feature: Window dragging can be turned on/off (default off). New Feature: Allow getting text label value during the simulation. New Feature: Opacity settings for invisible element and master page. Enhancement: Associate .4ui file with ForeUI in Mac OS X. Enhancement: Make some GUI tuning for Mac OS X. Fixed Bug_0088: Duplicated page may have repeated element ids for same kind of elements. Fixed Bug_0089: Tabs element has no default selected index value in simulation. Fixed Bug_0090: Progress bar freezes when trying to save customized element. Fixed Bug_0091: After dragging image from image dock to replace the image on element, the cursor can not restore. Fixed Bug_0092: Invisible element on window element is shown when window is close. Version 1.55 (2009.09.09) New features, enhancements and bug fixings. New Feature: Nested master page supported. New Feature: Display and edit element id in tool pane. New Feature: Remember the behavior editor window size. Enhancement: Window element become interactive (draggable, close button works). Enhancement: Window title bar can have its icon. Enhancement: Improve the way to generated element id and simplify the id format. Enhancement: Allow changing the group z-index. Enhancement: Move configure date to preference folder. Enhancement: Change GroupFrame minimun size to 20x20. Enhancement: Support smaller calendar (minimum size to 120x120). Fixed Bug_0085: "Selected & Disabled" radio button or checkbox gets enabled on hover. Fixed Bug_0086: Should ignore elements with lower z-index when move or show/hide element with "Include elements within the area" option. Fixed Bug_0087: Go to page action on first page loaded does not work. Version 1.51 (2009.08.21) Quick update for bug fixings. Fixed Bug_0083: The tree in action editing dialog is not rendered correctly in non-EaSynth look and feel. Fixed Bug_0084: The Ctrl+V will make pasting two times. Version 1.50 (2009.08.21) New features, enhancements and bug fixings. New Feature: Support customized element library. New Feature: Allow hiding the Text Edit Box border. New Feature: Support right click event. New Feature: User preferences settings. Enhancement: Add cut/copy/paste/delete items to edit menu. Enhancement: The plot property bar on bottom will become scrollable when window isn't wide enough. Enhancement: Behavior editor toolbar will become scrollable when dialog isn't wide enough. Fixed Bug_0074: The thumbnail of customized element with single component will be too tall. Fixed Bug_0079: Text label has extra margin in simulation. Fixed Bug_0080: Incorrect text margin of Text Edit Box in simulation. Fixed Bug_0081: PDF export: Generate 2 pages PDF for single page plot. Fixed Bug_0082: Change the state of non-selectable element will cause JS exception during simulation. Version 1.45 (2009.08.07) New features, enhancements and bug fixings. New Feature: Brand-new calendar element. New Feature: Eye dropper tool in color picker. New Feature: Clickable indicator for elements that has defined actions. New Feature: Rectangle element supports rounded corners now. New Feature: Rectangle, ellipse and triangle elements support border color. New Feature: Rectangle, ellipse and triangle elements support border thickness. New Feature: Allow handling events on page level. New Customized Element: Date Picker Enhancement: Go to Page action can find correct target when pages are re-ordered. Enhancement: The minimal height of Tabs element is the same with its title height. Fixed Bug_0075: Need to re-license the tool after update. Fixed Bug_0076: Icons in List, Menu and Tree element can not be saved in customized element. Fixed Bug_0077: Element chooser for action creation should select the current page by default. Fixed Bug_0078: Pause action in loop does not work. Version 1.40 (2009.07.24) Enhancements for Mac users. Enhancement: Improve the experience in Mac. Put menus into the desktop menu bar. Replace CTRL to CMD in hotkeys. Use BackSpace key to delete element. Provide .dmg disk image (.app file inside) for download Enhancement: Directly access web browser in JRE5. Enhancement: Auto unify the format of boolean value when editing expression. Version 1.37 (2009.07.20) New feature, enhancement and bug fixings. New Feature: Display control for editing. Enhancement: Menu Bar/Tabs/Table can escape the comma in content. Enhancement: UI theme switching can take effect without pressing "Apply" button. Fixed Bug_0073: Copy / Paste element does not update its behavior correctly. Version 1.35 (2009.07.13) New feature, enhancement and bug fixings. New Feature: Icon placement for Button element. New Feature: SelectionChanged event available. Enhancement: Menu Bar supports interaction. Enhancement: Menu supports interaction. Enhancement: List supports interaction. Enhancement: Tree supports interaction. Enhancement: Table supports interaction. Enhancement: Tabs supports interaction. Enhancement: Preloads images before launching simulation. Fixed Bug_0068: Duplicated pages don't copy action targets well Fixed Bug_0072: Hand drawing theme: Image elements are always grayscale. Version 1.32 (2009.07.08) Enhancement, new customized element and bug fixings. Enhancement: Transparent background for hand drawing theme. New Customized Element: Vertical layout button. Fixed Bug_0065: Transparent GIF image are not painted correctly. Fixed Bug_0066: The spaces at the beginning are not rendered on the plot. Fixed Bug_0067: The font is not exported to DHTML in V1.30 Fixed Bug_0070: Image Export: choose existed file and change the name doesn't make sense. Fixed Bug_0071: Hand drawing theme: Tabs should have different color when disabled. Version 1.30 (2009.06.29) New UI theme, new features, enhancement and bug fixings. New UI Theme: Hand drawing UI theme available. New Feature: Allow inputting the z-index of element directly. Enhancement: Exporting the rumple effect to DHTML. Enhancement: Auto check new versions when startup. Fixed Bug_0063: The text label collapses spaces when simulating. Fixed Bug_0064: After dragging the opacity slider, too may opacity records in undo history. Version 1.27 (2009.06.23) New element and bug fixings. New Customized Element: Placeholder. Fixed Bug_0057: Text label is on incorrect location during simulation. Fixed Bug_0058: The file "website_simulation.4ui" and "installer_simulation.4ui" can not be loaded. Fixed Bug_0059: Too many css files are used, it will meet problem when simulating in IE. Fixed Bug_0061: The conditional loop is not really stopped when condition is not satisfied. Fixed Bug_0062: The text label ignore the line break when simulating. Version 1.25 (2009.06.15) New features, enhancements and bug fixings. New Feature: Support loop in workflow simulation. New Customized Element: Hyperlink. New Customized Element: Title Text. New Customized Element: Radio Button Group. Enhancement: Simplify the action editing process. Fixed Bug_0052: Create customized element with a group, the behavior on members can not work (lost target). Fixed Bug_0054: Should show customized elements in "All Elements" category Fixed Bug_0055: Inserted property should replace the current selection in expression. Fixed Bug_0056: Canceling element selection should recover the previous selection. Version 1.22 (2009.06.09) Minor update for new features and bug fixings. New Feature: Dynamically change the text of label supported. New Feature: Allow setting select state of multiple check boxes within a group. New Feature: Allow unselecting sibling radio buttons within a group when selecting on of them. Fixed Bug_0048: Double click customized element to add, some elements are moved to incorrect location. Fixed Bug_0049: Double click customized element to add, new elements should be selected. Fixed Bug_0050: The color of text label should be changed when it is disabled. Fixed Bug_0051: The action to change Text Edit Box value should support multi line editing. Version 1.20 (2009.05.29) A milestone of ForeUI product, added many important features, implement some enhancements and bug fixings. New Feature: Interactive simulation on web browser. New Feature: User customized element supported. New Feature: Export prototype to DHTML. New Feature: Allow adding note to element. New Feature: All elements support visible property. New Feature: Text edit box support multi row property and encrypt property. Enhancement: allow closing the page management dialog by clicking the plot area. Fixed Bug_0044: Save plot file may meet exception. Fixed Bug_0045: Caret display incorrect when text edit box is empty. Fixed Bug_0046: Changing UI theme should affect all pages. Fixed Bug_0047: Without copying first, cut an element then undo the action, exception will occur. Version 1.10 (2009.05.17) Add new features, implement some enhancements and bug fixings. New Feature: Slide show for UI prototype. New Feature: Export to PDF file. New Feature: Elements support multiple states Enhancement: Add progress window for all IO actions. Enhancement: Toolbar will become scrollable if the window is not wide enough. Fixed Bug_0042: Pages list should auto-scroll to make new added item visible Fixed Bug_0043: Plot with empty page can not save Version 1.07 (2009.05.13) Add new features. New Feature: Support exporting multiple pages as images. New Feature: Support new exporting formats: JPG, GIF, BMP and WBMP New Feature: Add triangle element New Feature: Allow pressing CTRL+ENTER to finish multi row text editing. Version 1.05 (2009.05.07) Fixed some bugs and added new features. New Feature: Support multiple pages within a plot. New Feature: Perform update checking from menu. Fixed Bug_0030: The text editor may be trimmed. Fixed Bug_0037: Floating tool pane may cover the selected elements. Fixed Bug_0038: Image id display incorrect in floating tool pane. Fixed Bug_0040: Elements should be aligned to the lead selection. Version 1.02 (2009.04.30) Bug fixing version. Fixed Bug_0033: List, Menu, Table and Tree change text with the copied object together. Fixed Bug_0034: Specify an image to a button, undo the action, then button text contains "[img-1]". Fixed Bug_0035: Copy and paste actions may not be undo/redo in some cases. Fixed Bug_0036: Edit text of element within a group, click empty area to stop, some error messages in log file. Version 1.00 (2009.04.27) First officially released version. Fixed some bugs and added new features. Mac OS X UI theme available. Allow image drag and drop from image dock. Enhance object snap behavior. Beta Version (2009.04.14) The second version for collecting feedback. Windows XP UI theme available. Alpha Version (2009.04.08) The first version for collecting feedback. Provided wireframe UI theme.