Maqetta Announces Release of Preview 6

The Maqetta team is pleased to announce the Preview 6 release on Maqetta.org.

Here is a summary of new features:

Visual editor improvements:

Selection chrome has new look (and revised behavior)
Ability to drag a widget by mouse-down on interior
Elastic band select
Alt-key or Option-key to copy a widget with drag operation
Select parent, Select ancestor, Unselect all (on context menu)
Move to front, move to back, move forward, move backward (absolutely positioned widgets - on context menu)

Mobile UI sketching:

Mobile device silhouettes as clip art :iPhone, iPad, Android_340x480, Android_480x800, AndroidTablet, Blackberry phone
Countless fixes so that Dojo Mobile widgets can be used in sketch mode
New mobile sketching tutorial.

GridX support, with creation wizard that allows for column control

GridX replaces DataGrid

Properties palette improvements:

‘moveTo’ properties provide drop-downs of current mobile views
‘class’ attribute provides drop-down list of currently used classes
‘class’ and ‘id’ ‘fields on separate lines, and are stretchable

Drawing tool improvements:

revised collection of line/arrow widgets (Line, Arrow, Polyline, Polyline Arrow)
ability to drag out initial size and direction for lines and arrows
multiple-click create of polylines

Mobile UI improvements:

Mobile silhouette orientation now persists
moveTo property now lists existing mobile view ids
You can now drag and drop widgets into ListItems
IconContainer now has a easier to use editing tool

Limited PHP file support - Maqetta page editor allows PHP constructs (and generally just ignores them) inside the HTML files. See release notes for details.

CSV data file support - previous versions only support JSON data

Many bug fixes

Migration of User Workspaces - if you run on Maqetta.org, your projects should be migrated automatically. See release notes for details.