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Tom Randle marked one of Brian Harris' replies in Redgate SQL Response v2 as useful. Brian Harris replied to the question "Rewind Time".

Tom Randle replied on March 18, 2010 11:07 to the question "Is spell check in the works?" in Balsamiq:

This would make me happy! Although it would have to be better than spell check in photoshop! Inline squigglies like in browsers / word would be my vote. .

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A comment on the problem "Save all not working" in Balsamiq:

That's ok. Glad to help.

I think my experience was made slightly worse by the behaviour of 'Save All'. I thought my work was saved.. but in reality 'Save All' doesn't save all. it just saves stuff that's previously been saved and given a file name...

Thanks again, – Tom Randle, on March 16, 2010 15:30

A comment on the problem "Save all not working" in Balsamiq:

Aha!

I'm clicking b. the upper right corner.
I just tried c. and that behaved properly (I didn't get the bug!) – Tom Randle, on March 16, 2010 15:24

Tom Randle replied on March 16, 2010 15:05 to the problem "Save all not working" in Balsamiq:

They all say 'new mockup' because they've not been saved.

1) Create a new mockup add some stuff
2) Create another new mockup add some stuff
3) Click close
4) Get told to save
5) Save the first mockup
6) Balsamiq automatically closes losing the second mockup.

So basically if you've got more than one new unsaved mockup open and you hit close, you're completely screwed!

Thanks for looking into it!

Tom Randle replied on March 16, 2010 14:29 to the problem "Save all not working" in Balsamiq:

Ok i've just tried .Next533 and it does the same thing

Tom Randle replied on March 16, 2010 14:24 to the problem "Save all not working" in Balsamiq:

I'm on this version:

Version: 1.6.67 - 02/24/2010 17:55 (Air)
Flash Player Version: WIN 10,0,45,2

and my colleague who managed to replicate the issue on is on

Version: 1.6.60 - 01/19/2010 08:33 (Air)
Flash Player Version: WIN 10,0,42,34

I'll try the latest that next build now.

Tom

A comment on the problem "Balsamiq doesn't save my files" in Balsamiq:

Here's the url to my comment http://community.balsamiq.com/balsami... – Tom Randle, on March 16, 2010 12:35

Tom Randle replied on March 16, 2010 12:34 to the problem "Balsamiq doesn't save my files" in Balsamiq:

Oops I didn't read the trial bit... But I'm using the full version and have the same problem.

Tom Randle replied on March 16, 2010 11:36 to the problem "Balsamiq doesn't save my files" in Balsamiq:

I've had this exact same problem and lost loads of work too :-(

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Tom Randle replied to "Save all not working", but it was removed. see the change log

Tom Randle reported a problem in Balsamiq on March 11, 2010 17:00:

Save all not working

Save All - not working properly just lost 6 tabs worth of work :-(

I created a whole load of new mockups and kept pressing save all (i've been working on them the past 2 hours). I didn't save them individually.

I then hit close and got he message telling me to save them individually.

I closed the dialog. Saved one of the documents and then Balsamiq automatically closed - losing all the other tabs.

I can reproduce it.

Why does balsamiq auto close after i've save just one of the files.

Save all's behaviour has to change.
Surely the sensible thing to .. .. if any of the documents hasn't already been saved before is to ask for the location and save with default file names e.g mockup1 mockup2

Tom Randle replied on March 09, 2010 08:57 to the idea "Text formatting helper" in Balsamiq:

I think a nice touch would also be to change the color or highlight the syntax some other way.

for example [x] and [ ] would be blue.

I think this would help reduce the number of times I mistype... or something other than I expect occurs!

A comment on the idea "Text formatting helper" in Balsamiq:

I like this approach. Perhaps the icon could also be included in the legend?
I also quite like the idea of clicking on one of the entries also inserting the text - although most the time I think I'd still type. – Tom Randle, on March 09, 2010 08:54

Tom Randle shared an idea in Balsamiq on March 08, 2010 13:42:

Help remembering syntax when using special components from the UI library

Lots of Balsamiq's components have nifty syntax

e.g. f draws closed folders in the tree component and F for open folders etc.

These show up as examples when you add the component

My problem is that as soon as you start typing they disappear and I frequently forget what to use...

My workaround is normally to add a second copy of the components so I can read off the examples.. but it's not ideal.

Is there another way we could be reminded?
Maybe a tooltip?

Tom Randle replied on March 08, 2010 11:12 to the update "SQL Response v2 Early Access Program" in Redgate SQL Response v2:

We're looking forward to getting your feedback!