Mockingbird: New tool for building mockups, written in Cappuccino • Hacker News Board

Re: Mockingbird: New tool for building mockups, written in Cappuccino

#11

Post by izaidi » Wed, Nov 04, 2009, 3:31 AM UTC

Might want to consider a different screenshot on the main page. The big centered arrow made me think it was a clickable demo video.

Re: Mockingbird: New tool for building mockups, written in Cappuccino

#12

Post by slig » Wed, Nov 04, 2009, 3:31 AM UTC

saikat wrote: post #7

Meatshoes wrote: post #5

Cool idea but it's very buggy. With 2 minutes of use I discovered that upon double clicking text to edit hitting enter makes the widget disappear, now I can no longer drag widgets onto the work space and the scroll bar on the widget "library" is frozen (although it still works). Looks like it could be very cool with the issues ironed out.

Interesting, I haven't been able to replicate that problem. What browser/OS are you using?

Here when I hit enter after changing the text/value of a control, it suddenly disappears. os x tiger, firefox 3.5.4

Re: Mockingbird: New tool for building mockups, written in Cappuccino

#13

Post by divia » Wed, Nov 04, 2009, 3:33 AM UTC

http://gomockingbird.com/mockingbird/index.html?project=ebdb...

Re: Mockingbird: New tool for building mockups, written in Cappuccino

#14

Post by grinich » Wed, Nov 04, 2009, 3:43 AM UTC

      index.html
      Mockingbird

      Created by You on May 22, 2009.
      Copyright 2009, Your Company All rights reserved.

accurate?

Re: Mockingbird: New tool for building mockups, written in Cappuccino

#15

Post by sammcd » Wed, Nov 04, 2009, 3:47 AM UTC

Bug Report:

1) Put a button on the screen.

2) But a box on the screen

3) But the box on top of the button

4) Select the button (oh wait you can't)

Otherwise seems like a great product. I love that you used cappuccino, I can't wait until they give us Atlas.

Re: Mockingbird: New tool for building mockups, written in Cappuccino

#16

Post by theli0nheart » Wed, Nov 04, 2009, 3:49 AM UTC

What I can't understand is why you'd model a language after Objective-C. It's verbose to the point of ridiculousness.

Re: Mockingbird: New tool for building mockups, written in Cappuccino

#17

Post by absconditus » Wed, Nov 04, 2009, 3:55 AM UTC

saikat wrote: post #4

mattiss wrote: post #2

Looks cool, but it is painfully slow (Linux + firefox). Maybe other systems run it better, but for me it is too slow to do much good.

Yeah, we just launched this today and are in very early stages of beta. We realize speed is an issue right now (we've mostly been testing on Windows and OS X, on which it runs better), and it's definitely something we're working to improve.

Yet:

"Powered by Cappuccino: no Flash slowing down your browser."

Re: Mockingbird: New tool for building mockups, written in Cappuccino

#18

Post by saikat » Wed, Nov 04, 2009, 3:57 AM UTC

grinich wrote: post #14

index.html Mockingbird Created by You on May 22, 2009. Copyright 2009, Your Company All rights reserved. accurate?

Hah! Nice catch, that is not in fact accurate.

Re: Mockingbird: New tool for building mockups, written in Cappuccino

#19

Post by davidcann » Wed, Nov 04, 2009, 4:05 AM UTC

Awesome, nice job!

Re: Mockingbird: New tool for building mockups, written in Cappuccino

#20

Post by saikat » Wed, Nov 04, 2009, 4:08 AM UTC

sammcd wrote: post #15

Bug Report: 1) Put a button on the screen. 2) But a box on the screen 3) But the box on top of the button 4) Select the button (oh wait you can't) Otherwise seems like a great product. I love that you used cappuccino, I can't wait until they give us Atlas.

Yeah that's a good point, I can see how this is fairly confusing. This happens because the box is added on top of the button - you can, however, hit the "Back" button on the toolbar (after selecting the box) to move the box back.