[Tool] Pencil - UI prototyping / sketching
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I was looking for a free/cheap tool to mock up UI designs / wireframes. Came across this one:
@unknownuser said:
The Pencil Project's unique mission is to build a free and opensource tool for making diagrams and GUI prototyping that everyone can use.
Top features:
* Built-in stencils for diagraming and prototyping * Multi-page document with background page * Inter-page linkings! * On-screen text editing with rich-text supports * Exporting to HTML, PNG, Openoffice.org document, Word document and PDF. * Undo/redo supports * Installing user-defined stencils and templates * Standard drawing operations: aligning, z-ordering, scaling, rotating... * Cross-platforms * Adding external objects * Personal Collection * Clipart Browser * Object snapping * Sketchy Stencil * And much more...Did a quick test and it worked pretty well.
I allows you to also use native UI widgets.
Anyone knows of other similar tools?
I saw some of the commercial alternatives appeared to have more interaction options.I was about to use Visual Studio Express to put something together, but it seemed like an overkill.
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Interesting, but does it just make "sketches" or can it actually make applets ?
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It's just UI drafting. You can get addon packages to add chart diagram symbols.
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Still useful and cool, thanks for the link.
You must have found Glade when searching for a UI designer - it supports quite a few language bindings. Even JavaScript, which I found interesting. Does that mean you can write desktop apps in JavaScript using gtk widgets?
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