The Motify library price model is now ready. We will provide several editions of the library hopefully tailored to your needs so that you don't have to pay for more than you need. In addition we provide discounts if you have a larger team. We hope that this model suits most of our users. More information and pricing on each edition can be found here: http://www.motigon.com/lib/pricing.html
We expect to be able to release our product within the window of Q4, sometime during this fall. Progress towards this goal looks promising, and we feel confident that we will be able to release within this window.
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Original image size
When working with images it might be that you resize the image so that it looks very strange. This might be caused by the image getting an aspect ratio that is not reminiscent of the original image. There has been no method of correcting this earlier. A new selection has been added to the context menu. This menu item will only appear if you have selected an image or a selection of images. Pressing this selection resets the figure containing the image to match the original size of the image.
Friday July 6. 2012
Motify logo
The Diagram library has been named "Motify".
When we were looking for a logo for Motify, we used the service LogoMyWay. This is a service where logos are designed through a design competition. The customer who wants a logo give a bid on how much they want to pay for a logo. The service has lots of registered designers that in turn sends in proposed logos to the client. The client in turn judges and ranks the entries. The designer that designs the top ranked entry will then get the initial bid.
The result of this competition can be seen here:
http://www.logomyway.com/contestView.php?contestId=8224
We gave a bid of $300, in the lower part of their price scale, and ended up with 189 entries. An overwhelming amount of proposals in every form and color, which resulted in us spending a lot of time judging these entries against each other. In the end we selected the logo presented under.
When we were looking for a logo for Motify, we used the service LogoMyWay. This is a service where logos are designed through a design competition. The customer who wants a logo give a bid on how much they want to pay for a logo. The service has lots of registered designers that in turn sends in proposed logos to the client. The client in turn judges and ranks the entries. The designer that designs the top ranked entry will then get the initial bid.
The result of this competition can be seen here:
http://www.logomyway.com/contestView.php?contestId=8224
We gave a bid of $300, in the lower part of their price scale, and ended up with 189 entries. An overwhelming amount of proposals in every form and color, which resulted in us spending a lot of time judging these entries against each other. In the end we selected the logo presented under.
Tuesday June 12. 2012
Diagram text selection
Adding text to figures has become a lot easier. We've added support for selecting text within the text area. This allows for removing larger blocks of text quickly. In addition to copying figures we now also has support for copying the text within the figures. This gives us the possibility to copy text from one text area to an another. To top it all off, we also added support for the cut operation so that we have the triage of modification operations complete.
Monday June 11. 2012
Diagram endpoint styles
To further expand on our customization options we have added additional settings for line endpoints. To begin with, we only supported line styles from a set list of styles. In additional we now support changing the type of endpoint individually.
The list of possible endpoints will be expanded as we add more diagram styles. UML and ERM will be added shortly, with more line styles and figure types following.
The list of possible endpoints will be expanded as we add more diagram styles. UML and ERM will be added shortly, with more line styles and figure types following.
Friday June 1. 2012
Diagram alignment and distribution
In our hunt for the easiest to use diagram creator, we've added functionality for aligning and distributing the content of the drawing. This functionality will make it easier to position and organize figures.
Start by drawing a frame around all the figures you want to re-position. A right click will bring up the context menu, and from here you have the option to either align your figures or to distribute them along an axis.
Alignment
From the alignment menu you have several options for how you want to align your figures. When you select top alignment, all your figures will be moved so that all their top edges will follow the same line. The same goes for the other options.
Distribution
From the distribution you can place your figures on set intervals based on the rules you select. Figures can be distributed either from the center of each figure or using the same space between each of them.
Start by drawing a frame around all the figures you want to re-position. A right click will bring up the context menu, and from here you have the option to either align your figures or to distribute them along an axis.
Alignment
From the alignment menu you have several options for how you want to align your figures. When you select top alignment, all your figures will be moved so that all their top edges will follow the same line. The same goes for the other options.
Distribution
From the distribution you can place your figures on set intervals based on the rules you select. Figures can be distributed either from the center of each figure or using the same space between each of them.
Tuesday May 29. 2012
Diagram Swing interface
We are planning to create an application library using our internal diagram solution for easy integration into other systems. This library will support drawing diagrams in several programming languages. One of these languages is Java, and I've made a small example of drawing in Java using the Swing framework for the user interface.
Wednesday May 23. 2012
Diagram figure groups
In addition to functions for style and drawing for WIS Diagram, I've also added some new figure types. These figures shows elements like documents, database and arrows. These new figures are placed in its own group. With time we'll add more groups with various types of elements.
Tuesday January 31. 2012
Diagram gradient
Yet another function added to the WIS Diagram application is support for shadow and gradient. These functions are currently only toggable, but this functionality will be extended with time. Using these simple effects greatly improves the look of the drawing, and the end result turns a lot more professional looking.
Monday January 30. 2012
Move Diagram line text
Functionality has been added to WIS Diagram to move text attached to a line piece. This is done through selecting the select tool and drag the text that is positioned on top of the line.
While moving the text one will see a red cross marking the closest position on the line. This cross shows the fractional position of the text in relation to the line, a percentage value that won't change until you move the text again. When the line piece change size, for example by changing the position of its end points, this text will remain at the same relative position shown by this cross.
While moving the text one will see a red cross marking the closest position on the line. This cross shows the fractional position of the text in relation to the line, a percentage value that won't change until you move the text again. When the line piece change size, for example by changing the position of its end points, this text will remain at the same relative position shown by this cross.
Thursday January 26. 2012