GUI Design work involves a lot of mouse activity. Be more productive and reduce the strain by using keyboard alternatives where possible.
You can find most of the shortcut keys in the Help file by using the “Help | Keyboard Shortcuts” menu command.
Here’s a few more (some changed in version 3.5) that may not be listed in the help topic:
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GUI Design Studio version 3.5 is now available for immediate download. This is a maintenance release with some fixes and changes based on customer requests. It’s a free upgrade for all registered users.
For customers using any prior version of GUI Design Studio, simply install the new version and your existing licenses will continue to work.
Tree Icons
Until now, Tree elements have come with just a couple of basic sets of icons and the only way to change individual item icons was to place other icons on top.
That worked well until scrolling and item expansion/contraction functionality was added in version 3.3. After that, you needed to jump through a few hoops with components to get custom tree icons working properly.
Well, we’ve finally given Tree items their own icon property so you can now select them directly and everything works as it should. For convenience, the icon selector also keeps a record of the 10 most recent icons for fast, one-click selection.
Other Changes
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Did you know that you can change the behaviour of the mouse scroll wheel in the “File | Preferences” dialog in GUI Design Studio?
You can set it to zoom in and out or to scroll vertically. You can still get to the alternative function by holding down the Ctrl key. So if the wheel normally zooms, holding down the control key will scroll and vice versa.
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Whatever you’re pointing at when you zoom will remain fixed in position on screen so you can quickly point and zoom to focus in on any area of interest.
Don’t forget that if your mouse wheel tilts, this will scroll you horizontally, giving you full control over your view from that little wheel.
GUI Design Studio version 3.4 is now available for immediate download. This is a maintenance release with some important changes based on customer requests, and is a free upgrade for all registered users.
For customers using any prior version of GUI Design Studio, simply install the new version and your existing licenses will continue to work.
(1) Project Organisation
Now you can re-organise your projects with ease. In previous versions, we restricted the ability to move and rename design files to ensure that references remained intact and to help with project sharing.
In version 3.4, you can rename files and move them around using drag and drop. GUI Design Studio will track the changes and keep those references working.
Following on from the GUI Design Studio v3.3 release, here’s a short video (05:52) that demonstrates how the scrolling region shown in the previous post was constructed:
For best viewing quality, click on the HD and Full Screen icons once play has started!
Here’s a quick summary of how to produce a scrolling region:
That’s it!
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