Pencil Project Portable 2.0.3 has been released. Pencil Project is a prototyping and diagramming tool with built-in shapes for flowcharting, mobile/desktop/web UI, Android and iOS GUI and more. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Platform. And it's open source and completely free.
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Features
Pencil is built for the purpose of providing a free and open-source GUI prototyping tool that people can easily install and use to create mockups in popular desktop platforms. It includes built-in shapes collections for popular mobile (Android and iPhone) and desktop (Windows and generic) UI designs as well as flowcharts and common shapes. Additional stencil collections and clipart can be easily added as well. Pencil supports connectors which can be used to "wire" shapes together in a diagram along. Pencil project also supports exporting to PNG, web page, PDF, SVG and Open Document formats.
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PortableApps.com Installer / PortableApps.com Format
Pencil Project Portable is packaged in a PortableApps.com Installer so it will automatically detect an existing PortableApps.com installation when your drive is plugged in. It supports upgrades by installing right over an existing copy, preserving all settings. And it's in PortableApps.com Format, so it automatically works with the PortableApps.com Platform including the Menu and Backup Utility.
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Pencil Project Portable is available for immediate download from the Pencil Project Portable homepage. Get it today!
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Thanks, DefaultData
Thanks for updating this, Ken. I added the DefaultData back in as, without it, it comes up with the entire titlebar off the screen for me by default.
Flaw in the base app
If it can't find a profile, it defaults the window to around 1330x900 + borders, and aligns the bottom & right of the window to the taskbar & right of the window. If your screen can't handle one of those dimensions, it pops off the top/left.
If DefaultData stops others having this issue I am happy to keep it in.
Worse
It's even worse than that. It doesn't default to a set size. It uses a height the entire height of the screen including the taskbar and then aligns it to bottom just above the taskbar, so it's off the screen no matter what (including my 1920x1200). And, unless you know how to manually move a window with the keyboard, you can't move it back on the screen or use the main menu, rendering the app useless.
Ouch
I see where I got my sizing from. App was showing on second monitor (at different resolutions) using res of primary monitor.
On Win7 at least you can drag-resize any side of a window and it should pop back to display at 0,0 on the current monitor no matter how much then displays below/to the right of the screen. XP I know is not as helpful, Vista - no idea.
Pencil Project Portable 2.0.3 or 2.0.2?
For me, the "About" menu item reports this as version 2.0.2, not 2.0.3, and the file synchronization feature of Directory Opus between the files for this and my previously installed portable version 2.0.2.
Pencil Project Portable 2.0.3 or 2.0.2?
My bad. That was supposed to read: the file synchronization feature of Directory Opus finds no differences between the files for this version and my previously installed portable version 2.0.2.
Pencil Project Portable 2.0.3 or 2.0.2?
Well, never mind. I re-downloaded and installed, and now it shows the correct version number. Don't know what happened.
Category: "Development" or "Graphics & Pictures"? (bug)
Noticed a small bug earlier this year:
https://portableapps.com/node/41455
Thanks for that
An incorrect category was not really worth pushing out a whole new release when the app was (at that time) still under ongoing development, thus I hadn't done it.
The issue is already fixed in my local development copy, and I was just waiting for an update to the base app at which time it would all be fixed.
Unfortunately as of the 2.0.5 release in October last year it looks like Pencil is no longer being developed, so it may be worth pushing out a point release just to fix the category issue.
John: I know you are a busy man, but when the next lull in app releases comes along did you want to fix the category (we'll go with Graphics & Pictures as it is in the database) and push out a point release?
I'll Push It
I'll push it now once the other apps need updating since it needs a new installer anyway.