Archi 4.7 Beta

Started by Phil Beauvoir, March 04, 2020, 13:02:43 PM

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Phil Beauvoir

Archi 4.7 Beta 3 is now available - https://www.archimatetool.com/beta/

This has a nice fix for this issue - https://github.com/archimatetool/archi/issues/621

Cheers,

Phil
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rchevallier

Some feedback on the beta 4.7:

* Label expression are great. I need a quick way to set the label expression by recopying the same already present from a object in a view. I think they are part of the presentation of a visual object, so could the "Format Painter" tool do that ? If not, how to do it ?

* IMHO, the horizontal position of some fields in the "Appearence" tab is not great, as it forces an horizontal scrolling or a rather large width. I would rather keep all of them vertically like in 4.6.

Thanks for the excellent work in all case

Phil Beauvoir

> I need a quick way to set the label expression by recopying the same already present from a object in a view.

Copy and Paste them, just as you would with, say, the documentation field:

- Select and copy the format expression (Ctrl C).
- Select the target objects in the View (but not the original object).
- Paste the expression (Ctrl V).
- Ctrl Enter to complete.

> IMHO, the horizontal position of some fields in the "Appearence" tab is not great, as it forces an horizontal scrolling or a rather large width. I would rather keep all of them vertically like in 4.6.

There will be a local menu toggle option in the Properties window "Single Column Layout" - turn it on.
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Phil Beauvoir

Archi 4.7 Beta 4 is now available - https://www.archimatetool.com/beta/

- Add a preference for local and user-defined fonts folders
- [Properties] Add a local menu option for single-column layout
- [Label Expressions] Add "parent" prefix

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Phil
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Stanley

Excellent work!

On beta 5 the Windows 64-bit Installer link gives a 404.

Phil Beauvoir

> On beta 5 the Windows 64-bit Installer link gives a 404.

It's still uploading...refresh your browser...
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Phil Beauvoir

Archi 4.7 Beta 6 is now available - https://www.archimatetool.com/beta/

This one took a bit longer.

We changed how scaled graphics are rendered to fix a text clipping problem (beta 3) and this caused some other issues when drawing figures so these should be fixed now. See https://github.com/archimatetool/archi/issues/637

We also had to remove the preference to have a user directory for fonts that was introduced in beta 4 as there are more issues to solve. See https://github.com/archimatetool/archi/issues/628

Cheers,

Phil
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Phil Beauvoir

Archi 4.7 Beta 7 is now available - https://www.archimatetool.com/beta/

We found out that that the text clipping fix caused outlines to be rendered differently on Windows than on Mac/Linux. So all the figures have been re-coded and all now use a true line width of 1 that scales when zoomed, rather than a line width that was the same hairline width whatever the zoom.

Phil
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Phil Beauvoir

We're aiming to release Archi 4.7 final next week. Therefore there is a freeze on new features for 4.7, only last minute bug fixes.
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