V2 Preview
I finally found/took the time for creating a little video preview of the upcoming version 2.0 of Lovely Charts!
Check out the video, and please let me know how you feel about it, either by commenting below, or via email at jerome at lovelycharts dot com
As you will see in the video below, Lovely Charts will become available as an AIR application, capable of running locally on your desktop, save and open local files, but an online edition will remain and will be updated as well.
I expect the beta testing period to begin around november, or more likely december this year, with a public release around march next year I hope.
Just so you know, there’s actually a couple more features coming up that are not unveiled in this video, but I want to hold some surprises for future announcements 
Now, back to work!
19 October 2009 |
These look great Jerome, congrats!
LMK if you need help dealing with the “two apples on leopard” issue I saw in the screencast, it has to do with replacing the native menus entirely instead of “selectively removing the ones you don’t want”.
Looking forward to seeing the new app in action!
19 October 2009 |
Thanks Peldi!
Believe it or not, I knew you were going to say that :)… I actually briefly met with Rob Christensen at MAX, who told me you faced that same issue and that it was related to something like that.
I must admit I’ve kind of left it aside for now, as I really hate the idea of editing the native menu ^^
If that’s the only solution I guess I’ll have to do it, but for now I admit I have kind of secretly hoped it would resolve automagically
Cheers,
J.
19 October 2009 |
email me, I’ll send you my MockupsMenusAir.as class, it’s not too big of a hack.
19 October 2009 |
Very nice! Looks awesome! When is it about to go online?
19 October 2009 |
I love it. Really.
20 October 2009 |
Peldi > Thanks for the offer, will do that right away
Dani > thank you! The beta testing period should begin before the end of the year, most likely at the beginning of december… for a public release probably around march.
Eric > Thanks a lot!
21 October 2009 |
Jerome,
V2 looks great. I can’t wait for it to come out.
I work for a Fortune 200 company and recently I was involved in a brainstorming session for one of our new product architectures. I did up a conceptual diagram using LovelyCharts, and everyone thought the application was pretty cool (they’d never heard of it). They liked it so much, they asked me to send them a copy of it in Visio.
I can’t wait for the day when they ask me to share it with them in LovelyCharts.
Keep up the great work,
Dan
16 November 2009 |
Jerome, would the air app save in a graphml format? I have a some interesting usecase in the domain of Voice Response usecase documentation. Let me know if you have time to hear that.
20 November 2009 |
I LOVE this program! Will there be a portable/offline version for purchas?