Lovely Charts

As promised last time, let’s welcome with this week’s release a couple of additions to the various symbols libraries:

• There is now a scrollbar symbol in the Wireframes library.
• Vertical & Horizontal annotations symbols were added to the Basics library
• But most of the additions have been made to the Flowcharting library, notably including most-wanted swimlanes symbols (vertical & horizontal), an Activity symbol, and a couple of various miscalleneous process-related symbols such as External Entity, Loop, and External Reference.

I just made a little diagram using the new vertical swimlane symbol and the activities symbol, let me know what you think of it:



Besides, I’ve also fixed a couple of things in the app itself, notably restoring the proper functioning of keyboard shortcuts (on a limited set of browsers unfortunately) that broke with a silly typo I made in last week’s patch.

Please continue to let me know of issues you encounter or features you desperately need, it really plays in the prioritization process!

That being said, let me conclude this post with some insider information on what’s going on at the Lovely Charts headquarters (note to self, post a picture of home office, including canine co-worker^^): the last weeks have just been absolutely crazy! Besides working on regular updates, patches and additions to the current Lovely Charts version, I’m also dedicating quite a significant portion of my time to the architecture and development of version 2, which will notably include a complete revision of the editor component. Progress has been pretty awesome lately, so I can’t resist the temptation of showing you this sneak screenshot revealing quite a bit on what’s coming (automated layouts amongst other things):



“Looking” cool, no?