Mockplus

New in Nov

Released: Nov 5, 2023

What's new

Here are the key updates you should know in this release:
- Improved the Asset Libraries. You can now group, ungroup, delete and manage your assets with shortcuts.
- Improved the recognition strategy of normal layers, text layers and frame asset layers after being published to Mockplus Cloud.

Feature updates

Improved the Text widget. A new right-click menu is added to help you do more operations under its editing mode, such as copying and pasting selected text.
Improved the Asset Libraries. You can now group, ungroup, delete and manage your assets with shortcuts.

Improvements

Improved the Auto Layout feature. When elements within auto-layout are selected, the auto-layout area will be displayed with a blue dashed border, making it easy to perceive the operable area of auto-layout elements.
Improved the dropdown box status of the layer and text styles.
Improved the asset restoration related to the imported Figma files.
Improved the slicing strategy when publishing projects to Mockplus Cloud, retaining only sublayer slices.

Fixes

Fix: You cannot adjust the radius of the duplicates when using "Rotate copies".
Fix: You can still drag and drop an element into the framer even when you've enabled the auto layout and locked it.
Fix: You may not select a layer under a slice when adding a slice.
Fix: After editing the child layer of a Master, the layer name within instances is not changed synchronously.
Fix: The background blur settings of a framer may not work.
Fix: The recently viewed page list may be displayed incorrectly when managing project pages.
Fix: Fixed the incorrect layer hierarchy when dragging layer outside a frame using shortcuts " Ctrl + Alt".
Fix: Your assets are not sorted in the Arabic numeral order after adding numbers to asset names.
Fix: The assets of hidden layers are still visible after publishing the project to Mockplus Cloud.
Fix: You may be redirected to the homepage, not the related project folder, when returning back from the edit mode.
Fix: Fixed the incorrect layer position issue that occurred when scaling the canvas during layer dragging.
Fix: Part of your components were not updated to the latest version when copying and pasting instances across projects.
Fix other problems.

New in Oct

Released: Oct 31, 2023

What's new

Here are the new features you should know:
- New auto layout
- New Domment mode to leave comments directly anywhere of your design
- New Development mode for developers to view layer measurements, download assets, and get CSS code snippets and more
- New ability to upload and share custom fonts across teams
- New ability to select all objects with the same characters
- New ability to set and manage project access, like Can View, Can Manage and Can Edit
- New feature to quickly search for menus, plugins and shortcuts using "Ctrl + /"

Feature updates

New ability to select all objects with the same characters.
New shortcuts "Ctrl + /" to quickly search for menus, plugins and shortcuts.
New auto layout, allowing you to create designs that automatically adapt as the content within a frame, component, or component group changes.
New feature to set grids and layouts with ease.
Changed the Artboard into Frame, which is a container that allows you to nest your design content, adjust its corner radio, make it rotate and set other styles.
New ability to show and hide instances using shortcut "Del" or through right-click menu.
New feature to inherit the component overrides. When replacing components, they can now inherit the overrides of the same style.
New ability to upload, manage and share custom fonts across teams, without having to download the local font assistant anymore.
New ability to favorite commonly-used fonts for later reuse.
New ability to set and manage project access, like Can View, Can Manage and Can Edit, making it much safer for you to share your projects or project folders.
New shortcut "=" to quickly adjust gradient color anchor points.
New ability to move the frame selection area by holding “Spacebar”.

Improvements

Improved the color picking on Mac. You can now selecting part of texts within a document and use shortcut "Ctrl+C" to quickly pick colors.
Improved the Magnifier tool. When using "Z + Click" to zoom in a layer, it won't trigger content editing anymore.
Improved the search styles of the edit mode. The search styles in the Layer panel, Asset panel, and Property panel now remain the same.
Improved the Symbol creation. When you select a container to create as a Symbol, you now have the option to "Send Symbol to Symbol Page".
Improved SVG code pasting, ensuring that the generated icons are always centered within the visible area.
Improved click-through selection. When double clicking without moving the mouse, you can keep clicking to select layers within. When holding Ctrl to pass through selection, you can now directly select sub-layers within an instance.
Improved the Sketch file importing.
Improved the version histories, allowing you to filter All, Autosave versions and Manual save versions.
Improved image import, allowing you to import images in .webp format.
Improved the display of text overrides. Text content will auto wrap for better readability.
Improved asset preview. When you select an asset for preview, the Property panel will auto scroll to the position where you can view the preview completely.
Improved the project sharing. When sharing a project, its name will be automatically included in the share link.
Improved the container cloning. When cloning multiple containers, they will now maintain the same relative positions as the cloning source.
Improved Pen tool, allowing you to use shortcuts like Ctrl, Spacebar, Shift and more.
Improved the error message for failed exports when the slice size is too large.
Improved batch image import. Your batch imported images will be automatically resorted and organized.
Improved the right-click menu for component instances. You can now quickly jump from nested instances to their source.
Improved the asset library management. Shared asset libraries can now be managed and filtered by your workspaces, such as personal and team space.

Fixes

Fix: Fixed the lagging issue of the Symbol page.
Fix: All teammates may get notified even when @mentioning only one person in a comment.
Fix: Some special symbols may appear when pressing the Tab key during text editing.
Fix: Shortcuts "Ctrl + Click" did not select child layers when a group was selected.
Fix: Fixed the incorrect positioning issue when cloning with shortcut "Alt".
Fix: You may not close the "Share" window using the "ESC" button.
Fix: Exporting a Sketch file, then importing it into DT, would result in instances with a white background being added.
Fix: Symbol layers could be clicked through with multiple clicks.
Fix: Your dragging may not work when triggering the Hand tool using the Spacebar in Comment mode.
Fix: Clicking missing fonts may not response.
Fix: Inputting illegal characters may make the editor crash.
Fix: Fixed the unclear grid line issue.
Fix: Some icons in the project were not visible and required double-clicking or refreshing to make them appear.
Fix: Selecting text inside an instance did not allow to set a text override.
Fix: Renaming a component did not automatically expand its child layers.
Fix: Figma nested selections, when converted into a DT group, did not render the hue property.
Fix other problems.

New in June

Released: Jun 29, 2023

What's new

With this release, you can check the following:
- New featured templates for you to start your design as soon as possible
- New ability to directly import Figma local files for further editing
- New ability to export projects as PDF files
- New color overrides allow you to edit the colors of instances
- New shortcuts to help you design much faster
- New demo project helps you get started with DT in minutes

Feature updates

New ability to manually enter the desired zoom ratio in the editing mode.
New feature to import Figma local files in just a few clicks.
New ability to export projects as PDF files.
New color overrides allow you to edit the colors of instances.
New demo project allows you to get started with DT in just minutes.
New shortcut keys "home/end" to switch between artboards on the canvas and quickly select the desired one based on their positions.
New shortcut keys "Ctrl+shift+O" to quickly offset paths.
New shortcut keys to set the text styles (You may click "F1" to view all shortcut keys).
New color overrides allow you to edit the colors of instances.
New menu option to expand or collapse all nodes.
Added a new view option called "Multiplayer cursors" to show the name label of users working on the same design page.
New shortcut keys "Ctrl+Alt+Click" to expand or collapse page groups when selecting artboards or page groups on the Layer Tree panel.
New shortcuts "Spacebar/Shift +Left/Mouse wheel/Right click" to zoom or move artboards quickly.
New ability to keep the size changes when external or shared libraries are updated.
New ability to enter some special signals when using default fonts.

Improvements

Improved the display of overrides on the right panel, much more clearly and precisely.
Improved the recognition of Figma files. Your file details are restored more accurately.
Improved gradient color settings by adding horizontal/vertical snapping effects to the gradient handles, making it easier to achieve precise and aligned gradients.
Improved the performance of frame selecting a large number of layers.
Improved searching. Now, you can search for desired one from all pages and layers of the current project at your fingertips.
Improved the feature to copy and paste styles, allowing you to copy the corner settings of the selected layers.
Improved mask settings, enabling you to add a mask even when you've selected only one layer.
Improved the page rendering and zooming performance of large artboards.
Improved the detail restoration of SVG and PDF files.
Improved the image loading of the offline HTML prototype.
Improved the selection of locked layers. You can now select locked layers on the canvas.
Improved the way of uploading image overrides. You can now simply upload a new image override with double clicks.

Fixes

Fix: Fixed the issue of frequent zooming and capturing screenshots causing browser memory crashes and black screens, providing a more stable and reliable browsing experience.
Fix: The artboards of the exported offline HTML prototype may be incorrectly ordered.
Fix: You may not find the linked external libraries when importing Sketch files.
Fix: When cutting partial text of an element, the text styles may not be correctly captured.
Fix: When rotating layers by holding "Shift", it may jitter all the time.
Fix: Your page may get stuck when trying to change the dash border of an element.
Fix: When trying to resize layer groups, the layer may jitter.
Fix: When trying to clone some artboards and layers isometrically by using the shortcut "Alt", some layers may get lost.
Fix: When exporting an asset in .svg format, you may get an empty file.
Fix: When publishing DT files to Mockplus Cloud, the exported assets may be changed.
Fix: When tidying up layers, they may be incorrectly positioned.
Fix: Your color settings may not work.
Fix: When moving layers across artboards, the hierarchy of your layers may be changed.
Fix: You may get errors when converting multiple component assets into artboards.
Fix: You don't get any response when scaling layers on the canvas by using the shortcut "Ctrl+K".
Fix other problems.

New in Feb

Released: Feb 14, 2023

What's new

This release brings the following new features and improvements:
- Three golden ratio overlays - Golden Spiral, Golden Grid, and Golden Rectangle - to help you aesthetically layout your interface at a perfect ratio
- Improved the performance and stability
- Added support for previewing your DT projects on our mobile app

Feature updates

New ability to show name labels that enable you to see who else are also working on the same interface and what changes they are making at the same time.
New feature to quickly select layers behind the overlaying artboards.
Added support for automatically generating default thumbnails for projects
Added a new button to expand or collapse the pages.
New ability to directly copy and paste a local image to fill a vector shape.
Added a new loading bar to improve the user experience when creating or refreshing pages.
Added a feature to set a page as a cover through right-click menus.
Added a feature to add borders to new layers using shortcut "B".
Added a new property to adjust the corner radius of shape components like Polygon and Star.

Improvements

Improved the project moving. You can now directly drag a project into a project folder listed in the left-upper corner.
Improved the loading performance of large projects.
Improved the performance of page zooming.
Improved the performance of cloning, frame selecting, dragging and dropping, and deleting layers.
Improved the layers' selection style on the workspace.
Improved the page renaming. You can now add several blank spaces to your page name.
Improved the selection area of layers under a smaller view.

Fixes

Fix: When copying and pasting external text into a text layer, your operations may not work.
Fix: When updating a Text Style, the width of the instances may be changed.
Fix: When a Color Variable has been applied to a layer, the color panel does not change correspondingly.
Fix: The blurred background of your imported Sketch file may be incorrectly restored.
Fix: The background color of your imported Figma file may be incorrectly restored.
Fix: Your imported image may have black borders.
Fix: The "Back" button may not work when publishing a project to Mockplus Cloud.
Fix: You may get incorrect corner radius after publishing projects to Mockplus Cloud.
Fix: When you select a layer in the workspace, the same layer may not be highlighted on the left Layer tree.
Fix: When multiple selecting texts and changing colors, the font and font size may be changed.
Fix: When adding an icon by copying and pasting SVG code, you may get the wrong icon size.
Fix: The Smart layout of your imported Sketch file may not work.
Fix: After you've deleted a page, the Home page is always automatically selected then.
Fix: Fixed the page crash issue that occurs when you're using the "Tidy" button to quickly align layers.

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