GUI Design Studio version 3.1 has now been released and is available for immediate download. This is a minor update with some small but very useful changes. Meanwhile, we are continuing to work on some major new features and further tweaks.

For customers using any prior version of GUI Design Studio, simply install the new version and your existing licenses will continue to work.

If you’ve been using a trial version that has expired, this new version should reset your trial period. If it doesn’t then please let us know and we’ll sort something out for you.

So here’s what’s changed in version 3.1:
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GUI Design Studio version 3.0 has now been released and is available for immediate download. If you’ve already tried a previous version or subscribed to our newsletter then check your email for download instructions, otherwise please request a trial.

With GUI Design Studio version 3.0, you can design and prototype a broad range of applications.

Rich Desktop Applications
In addition to the 40+ common controls included in GUI Design Studio, you can use a variety of other generic elements and add graphic images and icons too.

And with extensive support for tabbed interfaces, modal popups, dialogs and a whole host of other features, you can design almost any application.
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We’re pleased to announce that GUI Design Studio version 2.4 has now been released and is available for immediate download. If you’ve already tried a previous version or subscribed to our newsletter then check your email for download instructions, otherwise please request a trial.

GUI Design Studio version 2.4 is now Vista compatible with changes that include:

• Documentation Generation

• Now you can add rich, formatted descriptions to all of your design elements.


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We’re pleased to announce that GUI Design Studio version 2.3 has now been released and is available for immediate download. If you’ve already tried a previous version then check your email today for download instructions otherwise please request a trial.

There’s a host of new features in this version, including:

• Enhancements for Web application design
   
• New Web elements: Web Tabs, Web Panels, Web Button, Text Link List, Image Placeholder, Greeked Text
   
• New navigation types: “Replace Top Window” for Web page navigation (and other uses) with “Back” and “Forward” support.
   
• New event triggers for dynamic effects: “Mouse Enter”, “Mouse Leave” and “Mouse Over”.
   
• A new “Browser” mode for the Simulator that features a simple browser bar and other features that better suit Web designs. This mode can be switched on and off.
   
  
• Thumbnail components for a compact visualisation of navigation links.
  
   
• Plus further enhancements to existing elements to make them more adaptable to Web application use.
   
   
• Other enhancements
   
• New component overrides that allow you to use a component design and customise it by changing the properties of any element within it. This greatly enhances the reuse of components.
   
• Increased performance when using graphics and icons on larger projects to eliminate related system resource issues and speed up load time of graphic intensive designs.
   
• Plus various tweaks and bug fixes to other elements and features including the Icon Express icon editor.
   

We love to hear your comments and suggestions so give the new version a whirl and let us know what you think!