Information System Designer 2.1.0

This release focuses on Cinematic Designer to drastically improve the user experience in defining applications user interfaces structure and behavior.

• A new Mockup Diagram allows to visually define UIs: View Container Mockup

• The palette of the Mockup Diagram is populated automatically according to the selected toolkit

• An algorithm analyses the Mockup Diagram and produces a Grid Layout data structure ready to be consumed by any code generator. The Layout Diagram allows visualizing the Grid Layout structure: Layout Diagram

• An example attribute is added on View Elements whose value is displayed on the Example layer of the Mockup Diagram. (Also relevant to generate a demo dataset in your application)

• A new Cinematic Model Creation assistant has been added, allowing to choose a toolkit and initialize diagrams inviting the user to start modeling

• The Flow Diagram has been improved with several assistants to assist and guide the user in defining applications workflows: Flow Diagram

  • An Event selection dialog is now accessible when double clicking on a transition

  • A View Container dialog is now accessible when double clicking on a View State

• The Mockup Images can be displayed as workspace images on the View States: Flow Diagram with Mockup Images

• The toolkit metamodel has been enriched to support widget style definitions: Toolkit creation

  • Metadata can be defined on Widgets along with default values. This metadata is reported on View Elements, the modeler offering the possibility to edit their values. (Used for example to define accessibility data to make portable applications)

  • A metadata Help can be defined in the toolkit to guide the user in defining the metadata values

  • A documentation attribute on the widget is used to populate a help tab on the View Element properties view

  • A whole graphical style definition is now held by the widgets, allowing to define nice looking widgets like combo box, radio field, check box, etc...