Mockplus Release Notes

Rotating components

• Support rotating components directly in the Workspace.

Revision histories

• Adjusted the entry to the Revision History panel. You can now find it on the top toolbar.
• Changed the date type of the revision histories, making it easy to catch the update time.
• Improved the revision history display. You can now check a historical version in a full screen, enabling you to view changes and other details much easier.
• Fixed several problems that may affect the revision history data.

Components and properties

• Improved the strategy to resize the Panel component. Resizing the Panel will not affect the sizes or positions of the components inside.
• Fix: You may fail to change the settings of the text components using shortcuts.

Assets

• Support reordering your assets with drag-and-drop.

Connect mode

• Support adjusting the arrowhead of a connector manually with drag-and-drop when drawing flowcharts.
• Support adding notes to components quickly by using a shortcut "Ctrl+M".
• Support for a "Feedback" option in the "Help" menu. Please feel free to leave your feedback if you have any questions or concerns about Mockplus.

Design guides

• Support showing/hiding grids to position your elements more precisely.
• Support showing/hiding layouts to structure your page, helping you create a clean and neat layout.

Revision histories

• Support generating revision histories automatically. You can view any versions and revert to previous versions with ease.

Pen tool

• Improved the Pen tool to create a more pleasant UX.

Interactions

• Improved the strategy to memorize the parameters of different interactions. Your last settings will be automatically applied to the new interaction. No need to set them all every time.
• Fix: You may fail to drag the link point to the group or artboard that is filled with different components.

Others

• Fix: Your project data may not be automatically saved.

Pen tool

• Support cutting paths, enabling you to split your vector shape into several segments.
• Support opening or close paths in one click.
• Support continuing editing unclosed paths, making it easy to edit any desired paths.

Pencil tool

• Support for a Pencil tool to create hand-drawn lines, shapes and illustrations with ease.

Properties panel

• Support adjusting the Hue, Saturation, Brightness, Contrast and Invert of the Image component.
• Support blurring the Image component.
• Support turning uppercase letters to lowercase letters or converting lowercase letters to uppercase letters in one click. Text editing is pretty easy now.
• Support editing the border cap and join types.
• Support more text alignment options like Align right, Align left, Align center and Justify.
• Support specifying the line spacing.
• Support styling your lines with different Start and End types.

Basic editing

• Support adjusting the isometric spacing between components in a much quicker way.
• Support moving and cloning components in batch using a shortcut "Shift".

Interactions

• Improved the popups that helps set and list different interactions. Much easier to check interactions added.

Artboards

• Support exporting a main or sub-artboard as an image.

Project management

• Improved the functionality to clone projects, making it easy to create a copy for any project.

Left panel

• Support for the Layer Tree panel. Much easier to view the page outline and layer levels.
• Support for a new shortcut key "Alt+1-5" to quickly switch the tabs on the left panel.
• Improved the icon style of all components.
• Improved different operations related to Project Tree. You can now add child pages and groups with ease.

Interactions

• Support adjusting the direction of resizing or zooming when you try to make a "Resize" or "Zoom" interaction.
• Support for a "Switch content" command, allowing you to switch to the "Next" or "Previous" panel directly when creating an interaction.
• Support highlighting the target component on the workspace when you select an interaction on the right Interactions panel.
• Improved the Interactions panel and the related setting popups.

Properties panel

• Support new text properties like Align center, Align left and Align right.
• Support new text properties like Character spacing.
• Support adding component notes. Much easier to add a note, description or tooltip for a component.

Workspace

• Improved the visual effect of alignment guides. Much easier to align components and groups.

Components

• Support memorizing the settings to text components and connectors. Newly added text components and connectors will be auto styled with your last settings.

Workspace

• Support moving components in real-time.
• Improved the visual effect of alignment guides. Much easier to align components and groups.
• Improved the cursor style of the Pen and the "Add sub-artboard" tools.
• Increased the max zoom to 1600%. You can now prototype super tiny detail with ease.

Properties panel

• Support setting a background color for a main or sub-artboard.
• Support adding an external link to a component.

Pen tool

• Support adjusting the direction of paths by pressing "Shift".
• Support combining shapes, making it easier to create your own vector shapes and graphics.

Interactions

• Improved the "Interaction" panel. A short guide is added to help you make an interaction.
• Improved the way to delete the trigger of an interaction. No longer so easy to delete the interaction trigger accidentally.
• Improve the strategy to trigger an interaction when the
• Improved the strategy to activate an interaction when the trigger has been overlapped by a component. Hiding the component helps you uncover the trigger easily.

Component state

• Adjusted the layout of the State Panel.

Left panel

• Improved the functionality to search for icons.

Preview

• Improved the Control panel. The two options: "Always show link area" and "Show link area on mouse hover", are no longer selected by default. Your selection will be auto remembered.

Components & shapes

• Support over 60 commonly-used shapes, making website or mobile app prototyping easier.
• Support keeping the original size when uploading images.
• Improved the strategy to resize the Text Area component.
• Improved the strategy to delete all text content of the Text Area component.
• Improved the strategy to align the Text and Text Area components.
• Improved the strategy to resize part of the compound components.
• Improved the style and size of the Slider component.

Connect mode

• Support adjusting the connector manually.
• Support adding a description to explain the relations between two connected elements or components.
• Improved the performance of the connectors.

Assets & Project Tree

• Improved the color assets, allowing you to apply any color asset to the Fill, Border or Text of a component in simple clicks.
• Improved the way to rename pages on the Project Tree.

Editing

• Support rotating common components like Image, Button, Text and other shape components. Support searching for the target component or page when adding an interaction through the Interactions panel on the right side.
• Support for a new strategy to align a single component with the artboard.
• Improved the strategy to turn on/off the responsive layout of the parental component groups or containers.

Workspace

• Support viewing the spacing between components by pressing Alt and hovering over a component.
• Support for new shortcuts to add components and adjust artboard hierarchical levels quickly.
• Improve the strategy to memorize your last zoom ratio. After switching or previewing pages, the zoom ratio will not change.
• Improved the strategy to adjust the artboard position. After showing/hiding the Control Panel, the artboard will auto be centered.

Mockplus Cloud Integration

• Fix: A member may be shown as "Unknown" when he/she is editing a component.
• Fix: The artboard in Mockplus RP may have a different size when it has been opened in the single page mode of Mockplus Cloud.
• Fix: Fixed some problems of the single page mode.
• Fix: You may fail to return to from Mockplus RP to Mockplus Cloud.