Maqetta Announces Release of Preview 6 May 31

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.