Shortly after the 1.5 release, here we go with another quick one and some important updates.

Trial version restriction

I have decided to introduce few restrictions into the trial version, namely a limit of at most 5 pages per project, 1 master page per project. Also, the export all snapshots feature introduced in this update will not be available during trial period.

These restrictions were introduced for a couple of reasons. The first one would be because I realized that a 30 days trial period, especially with all functionality enabled is simply too much. I simply wish people won’t forget that there is someone developing this application, working hard from morning until late in the night.

The second reason is due to some technical restrictions that forced me to take this decision. Anyway, I hope people that have installed the app for more than 2 weeks won’t mind too much about it and if they like FlairBuilder, they will consider purchasing it.

Component palette improvements

In one of the previous versions I’ve put the option to show large buttons in the component palette. Given that users were pleased with the change, I have set it to default. To change it back, choose the corresponding option from the application menu:

Due to high demand, I’ve also add categories to component palette widgets. The categories are in a combo-box on the top of the palette:

I hope that this improvements will make the application more usable. If there is anything you think it could still be improved, just let me know.

Export all snapshots

Is now possible to export all project pages as images to a given directory. Due to the fact that pages are loaded lazily, when exporting a page as an image a supplementary step is taken, so there could be some latency on this operation.

Card stack polish

Probably I should have done this from the moment I introduced the component, but, well, here you have it: The card stack now can be customized with a border and background color.

To recognize it?

Bug fixes, as usual

Last night I was in a bug squashing fever. I’ve just passed over 80 support tickets on FlairBuilder GetSatisfaction forum. Quite a interested community gathering around FlairBuilder, isn’t it?

• Bug fix: Page name ‘uniqueness restriction’ message prompted when not necessary.
• Bug fix: Tab navigator: components dropped into tab navigator were going into the first one only.
• Bug fix: Data grid empty column issue.
• Bug fix: For component that support alternative row colors, the second color was not functioning at all.

This should be all for now. A big “Thank you!” to all those that help me each day to make FlairBuilder a better application, more useful and usable.

Unknown, here I come!