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DesignerVista 6.0 Build 390

April 17, 2013

DesignerVista version 6.0 is released on April 17, 2013 with the following new products, features and enhancements.

New Products - Sketch GUI Mockups

  • Blackberry GUI Mockups
  • Windows Phone 8 GUI Mockups
  • iPhone GUI Mockups
  • Android GUI Mockups
  • Flowchart Mockups
  • UML, Booch, ER and OMT Sketch Mockups

Features

  • Improved Application UI with Windows 8 look and feel.
  • Updated controls and templates with Windows 8 controls and Office 2013 icons.
  • Added more sketch icons for Blackberry and other new products.
  • Added new website templates.
  • Added more themes for website templates.

Changes

  • Updated Windows 8 UI for desktop and web GUI Mockup controls and templates.
  • Updated iPhone with iPad, iPod and Safari GUI Mockup controls and templates.
  • Updated Windows Phone with Tablet and Windows 8 GUI Mockup controls and templates.
  • Updated Android UI with Tablet controls and templates.
  • Added Blackberry UI with Smart Phones and Tablet controls and templates.
  • Updated with Gesture controls for mobile GUI mockups.
  • Added Flowchart Mockup controls and templates.
  • Added UML/Booch/OMT Mockup controls and templates.
  • Updated Drawing Editor template with Office 2013 ribbon UI.
  • Converted flow list controls to a group controls in templates for easy editing.
  • Updated mobile UI mockups with various phone types such as curved, square design etc.
  • Added Office 2013 style splashscreen templates.
  • Added Basic Flowchart, Cause and Effect, Fishbone diagram, SWOT analysis, Venn diagram, Network, Organization Chart, Project Management Templates in Flowchart mockups.
  • Added controls and templates to design class diagrams, activity diagrams, sequence diagrams and deployment diagrams for UML mockups.
  • Added controls and templates to design Booch, ER and OMT diagrams.

DesignerVista 5.0.1 Build 371

March 03, 2012

DesignerVista version 5.0.1 is released on March 03, 2012 with the following new features and enhancements
- Enabled Delete and Edit features in Favorites and User Libraries Window.

DesignerVista 5.0 is released.

Jan 2, 2012.

DesignerVista version 5.0 is released on Jan 2, 2012 with the following new features and enhancements.

  • UI: Improved Application UI with Ribbon User Interface
  • Document Explorer: Drag and Drop support to rearrange pages
  • Page Reorder Dialog: Drag and Drop support to rearrange pages
  • Added an option to reset UI layouts; If you have rearranged application UI windows, you can reset layouts on click of a button.
  • Help: Improved Web Help
  • Wireframing: Now you can link a control to URL or a file or a page
  • Wireframing: Support to show a page in a control (Template Master Control)
  • Wireframing: Support for multiple page template. Now template page can refer another page and the referenced page can refer another page and so on. Handles circular reference.
  • Wireframing: Added an option to select "Start up" page in wireframe setup.
  • Wireframing: Removed window titlebar
  • Slideshow: Added an option to select "Start up" page in slideshow setup.
  • Slideshow: Removed window titlebar
  • Template Control to show a page in a control.
  • Media Player controls supports You Tube Player, Windows Media Player, Adobe Shockwave player and Quicktime Player to play audio and video files.
  • Added Office 2010 UI controls

Java Shapes library 1.0 is released

Aug 04, 2011

We are pleased to announce the release of Java Shapes library 1.0
What is Java Shapes Library?
Java Graphics 2D API provides the basic shapes like Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle, Ellipse etc, but is not enough. Your java applications or components may require more custom shapes like Rounded Corner Buttons, Oblong, Stars,Folders etc. DesignerVista Shapes library provides shapes often used in Java GUI applications and Components. The shapes library is self contained and no dependencies on other framework or components. So you can easily integrate with your Java Applications or Components.



The shapes library provides the following group of shapes.
  • Basic shapes
  • Arrows
  • Brackets
  • Stars
  • Tabs
  • Flowchart shapes
  • UML shapes
  • Connector Lines
  • Arrow Heads
  • Strokes
  • Text

Released Stock Icons, Seamless Texture Backgrounds and ClipArt images

July 18, 2011

DesignerVista Soft is pleased to announce the release of Stock Images: Stock Icons, Seamless Texture Backgrounds and ClipArt images. DesignerVista Stock Images are highly professional design, low price, royalty free, compatibility with desktop software, gui mockups, websites, web applications, blogs, forums, mobile applications and print.

DesignerVista 4.0 is released.

Jan 19, 2011.

DesignerVista version 4.0 is released on Jan 19, 2011 with the following products, features and enhancements.

  • Desktop: windows Desktop, .NET Forms, Java Swing, Java SWT, Office Ribbon GUI Mockups
  • Web: Websites, Silverlight, Sharepoint, YUI GUI Mockups
  • Mobile: iPhone, Phone 7, Android GUI Mockups
  • Sketch: Desktop and Web GUI Mockups
  • Favorites and Library Window
  • Eye Dropper or Color Picker to pick a color from anywhere in the screen.
  • Colorize Icon to Apply color filter to any icons in a control
  • Text Shadow and Multi line Text Header
  • Symbol Insert dialog to insert symbols in text editor.
  • Copy a page from a document to another document
  • Save a page as document
  • Flow List control: Support for reflection(mirror effect).
  • New themes Silverlight, Sharepoint and YUI
  • Controls: Captcha, Tag Cloud, Cover Flow, Color Palette, Color Box with Text, Switch, Sticky Notes, Filler control Used in flow list controls
  • More Icons, Images, Pictures, Button Backgrounds, Mobile Icons, Sketch Icons, iPhone Home Screen Icons, Chart icons

DesignerVista 3.5 is released.

July 26, 2010.

DesignerVista version 3.5 is released on July 26, 2010 with the following features and enhancements.

  • Write UI Spec for Document, Page, Controls and Generate UI Spec Report
  • Generate HTML Pages with links (Wireframing)
  • Generate Notes Report
  • Generate PDF Report
  • Calendar control with Month, Year, Decade View; Many options to customize the Calendar view.
  • Customized Calendar Templates
  • Insert Calendar in Table control
  • Copy and Paste Properties; User can copy one or more properties from a control and apply to many controls.

DesignerVista 3.5 Beta is launched.

July 19, 2010.

DesignerVista version 3.5 Beta is released on July 19, 2010 with the following features and enhancements.

  • Write UI Spec for Document, Page, Controls and Generate UI Spec Report
  • Generate HTML Pages with links (Wireframing)
  • Generate Notes Report
  • Generate PDF Report

DesignerVista 3.0 is released.

Feb 24, 2010.

DesignerVista version 3.0 is released on February 24, 2010 with new products, features, controls and images.

New Products and Features:

  • Desktop GUI Mockup: To design High-Fidelity GUI Mockups/Prototypes/ Screenshots of Microsoft Windows Desktop Applications.
  • Web GUI Mockup: To design High-Fidelity GUI Mockups/Prototypes/Screenshots of Websites, Web Applications and Rich Client Applications.
  • Office Ribbon GUI Mockup: To design High-Fidelity GUI Mockups/ Prototypes/ Screenshots of Microsoft Office Ribbon Style Applications.
  • Sketch GUI Mockup: To design Low-Fidelity GUI Mockups/Prototypes/Screenshots of Desktop and Web Applications.
  • Features: Page Templates, System Templates, Annotations, Themes, Office Ribbon Style Mockup and Sketch Mockups, Insert Table, Import from Excel Table Data, Import from XML file into Tree, Page Link from Table Cell, Tree Node, List Item , Table Style and Insert Checkbox, Radiobutton, Command Button control in Table Cells, Tree Nodes and List items.
  • Controls and Images: Ribbon Quick Toolbar, Ribbon Tabs, Ribbon Panels and Controls, Annotation Shapes, Rating, Ruler, Balloon Tooltips, Web Forms, Websites, Dialogs, Arrow Lines and more images, icons and pictures.

DesignerVista 2.0 is released.

Jan 28, 2009.

Read more in this press release.

DesignerVista 2.0 Beta is launched.

Dec 23, 2008.

DesignerVista version 2.0 Beta is released on December 23, 2008 with new features, controls and images.

  • Features: Copy controls to Clipboard, Save Controls as Images, Quick Search Controls and Icons, Slide Show and Wireframing, Lorem Ipsum Text Insert, Rubber Stamping Mode.
  • Controls and Images: Ribbon Controls, BreadCrumbs, Links, Flow List Controls, Button Panels, Dialogs, MessageBoxes, About Boxes, SplashScreens, Shapes Wizards, Popup Menus, Web Navigation Bars, Thumbnails, Websites, Applications.

DesignerVista 1.2 is released.

Mar 3, 2008.

DesignerVista version 1.2 is released on March 3, 2008 with the following new features.

  • Windows XP/Vista Controls: Dockable Windows, Collapsible Panes, Calculator, Calendar, Outlookbar Tabbed Pane, Floor Tabbed Pane, Split Buttons, Font Name List Box, Font Size ListBox, Zoom ListBox, Selected Toolbar buttons and Theme Panels.
  • Web Controls: Web Page, Logo, Links, Copyright texts, Image Placeholder, Tab, Tab Selected, Navigation Panel, Square/Rounded Buttons, Section Header and Tab Content Panels.
  • Web Buttons: 20+ colorful web buttons.
  • Toolbar Icons: 40+ groups of icons. Each group contains many icons.
  • Enhancements: Now you can input RBG or Hex color value in Color Popup Menu. You can easily convert between RGB and Hex color values. Move the cursor over any color to see both RGB and Hex color value.

DesignerVista 1.2 Beta is launched.

Feb 17, 2008.

DesignerVista version 1.2 is scheduled to release early March 2008 with the following new features.

  • Windows XP/Vista Controls: Dockable Windows, Collapsible Panes, Calculator, Calendar, Outlookbar Tabbed Pane, Floor Tabbed Pane, Split Buttons, Font Name List Box, Font Size ListBox, Zoom ListBox, Selected Toolbar buttons.
  • Web Controls: Web Page, Logo, Links, Copyright texts, Image Placeholder, Tab, Tab Selected, Navigation Panel, Square/Rounded Buttons, Section Header and Tab Content Panels.
  • Web Buttons: 20+ colorful web buttons.
  • Toolbar Icons: 40+ groups of icons. Each group contains many icons.

DesignerVista 1.0 is updated - Export to HTML files feature is added.

Feb 2, 2008.

DesignerVista version 1.2 is scheduled to release early March 2008 with the following new features.

  • DesignerVista version 1.0.164 is updated with new feature "Export to HTML files". Now you can distribute all GUI designs as HTML files.
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DesignerVista 1.0 Released.

Jan 8,2008.

DesignerVista Soft,LLC released DesignerVista 1.0. It is a graphic user interface (GUI) design tool to design GUI mockups, GUI screenshots, GUI prototypes and Simple Web Page Prototype Designs.

  • Visual editor for creating and modifying GUI Mockups, Screenshots, Desktop GUI Prototypes and Simple Web Page Prototypes.
  • Easy and intuitive to use, powerful and productive.
  • Quickly prototype multiple alternatives for evaluation.
  • Easier to duplicate, change and distribute than paper and pencil designs.
  • Visual design without coding is accessible to everyone.
  • Design what you want without the restrictions of any development environment.
  • Quick GUI design with an easy to use extensive set of GUI controls.