Axure RP 9.0.0.3701 Pro

Axure RP Pro is a dedicated tool for prototyping web sites and web applications. It is based on concepts known from Visio and web design tools, and elegantly combines the best of the two worlds. Interaction designers have suffered from the fact that there have been no decent software tools on the market dedicated to prototyping.

Those of us who did not stick with the pen, paper, scissor and glue stick method of paper prototyping, have had no other option but to use and adapt tools designed for other purposes, such as Visio, Dreamweaver, PowerPoint, and Photoshop. Axure have set out to change this. Their Axure RP Pro is a dedicated web prototyping tool. All it does is prototyping, and it does it quite well.

Interactions

• Widget events: OnDoubleClick, OnContextMenu (right-click), OnMouseDown, OnMouseUp, OnMouseMove, OnMouseHover, OnLongClick (Tap and Hold), OnKeyDown, OnKeyUp.
• Dynamic Panels have mouse and keyboard events.
• Page events: OnWindowResize, OnWindowScroll and the mouse and keyboard events.
• Math, string, boolean and date operations. Too many to list here. Think JavaScript.
• Ability to refer to 'This Widget' in various interactions and conditions, i.e. Set text on This or Hide This.
• Options when showing and hiding widgets to bring to front, treat as flyout, collapse/expand widgets below, and treat as lightbox.
• Conditions to check if a widget is selected and to evaluate the key that was pressed for keyboard events.
• All widgets can be hidden, moved, or brought to front (not only panels).

Prototype

• Preview opens the current page in the browser and generates pages on-demand.
• Add web fonts and font mappings.
• Toolbar for selecting adaptive views, toggling footnotes, highlighting active elements, and searching the sitemap.
• Variables can be set to default values.
• HTML5 doctype.

Style

• Borders render within the dimensions of the widget for accurate dimensions.
• Add borders, rounded corners, and set opacity on Images.
• Apply outer, inner, and text shadows.
• Select typefaces beyond bold and italic.
• Page background images can be set to Stretch to Cover and Stretch to Contain.

Widget Properties

• Text Fields and Text Areas can have a Hint with Hint Style.
• Text Field Types: email, number, phone number, url, search.
• New shapes: paragraph (text panel replacement), H1, H2, H3, H4, H5, H6, heart, plus, star, arrows, speech bubble.
• Shapes can be set to auto fit height and width of the text in the shape.
• Shapes and images can be selected by default.
• Dynamic Panels have an option to fit to content.
• Dynamic Panel states have background colors and images.
• Dynamic Panels can be set to 100% wide.
• Dynamic Panels can trigger the interactions styles on the contained widgets. I.e. MouseOver on the panel makes all widgets inside show their MouseOver style.
• Ability to crop images.
• Droplist height can be edited.
• All widgets can be set hidden by default.

Environment

• Pages in the sitemap and widgets in custom widget libraries can be organized into folders.
• Sitemap shortcuts for adding pages (ctrl+enter), moving pages (ctrl+arrow / tab / shift+tab), and searching (start typing).
• Widget Properties and Style pane displays widget properties which previously only existed in the context menu.
• Widget Manager (replaces the dynamic panel manager) and lists all of the widgets on the page.
• The main menu and context menus have been reorganized.
• Double-click resize handles on shapes and panels to fit to the text height / width or content respectively.
• Reorganized case editor actions
• Ability to duplicate Dynamic Panel states
• Undo works after switching away and back to a page
• Ctrl+tab & ctrl+shift+tab move forward / back in screen history

Repeater Widget

• Create a dataset and a diagram that repeats based on the dataset.
• Use interactions to add, update, and delete items in the dataset.
• Use interactions to filter, sort, and paginate the Repeater.

Adaptive Views

• Define adaptive views based on browser width and/or height.
• Adaptive views inherit from one another so a change to the location, size, or style of a widget in the parent view affects its children, but a change in the child view does not affect the parent.
• Editing a widget's text, interactions, and other widget properties affects the widget in all views. The widget is the same widget across views (not a copy) so you only have to update the property once.
• The prototype switches views based on the browser size.

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