End of beta, and a little surprise :)
Beware, great (and scary) news coming! The beta period is coming to an end, everything seems pretty much in place and we are now kind of ready to launch :)… Just a couple of last minute fine tuning touches to bring, and we’ll be fully available for all ! Stay tuned for the BIG announcement coming up very soon !
Meanwhile, I would like to use the opportunity given by this blog post to announce the addition of a new and sexy feature to Lovely Charts: Rich Text Formatting.
This is one of these features I’ve been pushing back on since the beginning for various reasons, amongts which notably the fact that I didn’t want to clutter the user interface with “futile” features. But user feedback, and realworld usage of the app have pretty much convinced us of the necessity and added value of such a feature, so we have been considering this for quite a while now, but it’s been far from trivial.
The top bar of the application holds all controls impacting the visual aspect of symbols and connections, and it’s been deliberately constrained to the strictly necessary.
But even then, in a “small but average” screen resolution such as 1024*768, the top bar pretty much uses all the available space, so adding extra controls would have obviously implied quite a bit of reorganization work…
Please take a look at the video below to see what solution we came up with and implemented, and let us know what you think, I personally think it’s pretty cool and efficient !
3 February 2009 |
Great to see the service open up. I’m a longtime fan.
I don’t do charting often enough to justify the expense or learning curve of a desktop application. Having a free web resource that’s this easy to use is a big help.
I gave LovelyCharts an enthusiastic recommendation to all 3 of the people who read my blog.
I wish you the best of luck. Thanks for providing such a useful tool.
4 February 2009 |
Lovely Charts: Diagramme online erstellen…
Lovely Charts ist eine Anwendung, mit der man kostenlos hübsche Diagramme online erstellen kann. Folgende Diagrammtypen sind u.a. möglich:
Flowcharts
Sitemaps
Netzwerkdiagramme
Organigramme
Wireframes
Die RIA wurde mit Flex, PHP und MySQL erstellt….
6 February 2009 |
Hello,
Just a feedback about your app that I think is really pleasant to use.
Concerning the login panel here is my advice: you guys should prevent the user to drag this panel outside the stage as a reload of the app is necessary to recover that panel.
Preventing a window dragging can be done by overriding the the startDragging function of the popup window:
override protected function startDragging(event:MouseEvent):void {
// do nothing here
}
I would also re-center the panel when the browser window is resized (in popup class):
private function onResize(e:ResizeEvent):void {
if (isPopup) {
PopupManager.centerPopup(this);
}
}
These modifs ensure that the login panel will always be accessible.
My 2 cents.
10 February 2009 |
How do I line break labels on connectors?
10 February 2009 |
Awesome job! But I’ve been trying to register for days now - your system keeps saying it’s sending a confirmation code, but it never comes! And if I try to re-register or ask for password reminder, it knows I’m out here, but insists on the confirmation code.
If you can help, great, because I think (based on the intro video) it’s an excellent tool! Congratulations
15 April 2009 |
I can’t make copy paste of multiple items work - and it is rather hit or miss when I do more than one item at a time. (XP - IE7)
I need to be aboe to distribute as well as align.
How do you annotate connections? More documentation would be appreciated - I don’t have time to read through your blog for instructions - back to visio I guess - sigh…