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  • problem

    Nigel reported a problem in Balsamiq on September 03, 2009 20:51:

    Nigel
    Can't close Mockups from the OSX dock icon?
    The title says most of it - Right-clicking on the dock icon of Mockups Desktop in OSX, and selecting "Quit", doesn't close the app (at least for me). Pretty small thing (I have Mockups open almost all the time, so I don't hit this much =), but it's worth including as part of "make the app seem more native".

    (I'm on a slightly older mockups build - 1.6.25. Forgive me if it's been fixed since, but I didn't see it mentioned here).
  • idea

    Nigel replied on January 07, 2009 19:18 to the idea "Help me design the Linking Mockups Feature" in Balsamiq:

    Nigel
    Hey, Long-time Lurker... ;0)

    One thing that strikes me here is that the Desktop version will kind of get the short end of the stick here - to use this feature w/ Desktop, I'd have to either make sure all the recipients have Mockups for desktop (and all my BMMLs!), or start planning my website to host all the individual pngs. What I like about Mockups for desktop today is that the output is encapsulated in one little file I can email around, so this proposal doesn't really solve my main problems generating full "flow" storyboards.

    Worth considering (and maybe not as hard as you'd think? Not sure) would be encapsulating the output of a multi-BMML "project" (piling onto Eugene's work above) in some format that can handle it. A PDF w/ pages is workable, but I think you'd have a lot more room to grow into some crazier-cool features if you considered SWF as an output format =). It's self-contained, and can be used for adding other "dynamic" features to the output later (man, I wish I had hoverable tooltips/flyouts over certain regions!).

    I've done some on-the-fly swf generation using ByteArrays in the past, and could actually imagine this not being ridiculous hard. The main cost would likely be the tax on the user to learn the new concept, but I still have a feeling it would be worth it (since, frankly, what you're proposing won't help my workflow [sorry, I still only use desktop and send pngs]).
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