Fusebox 5 version of the Wireframe editor
Well, I just uploaded the FB5 version of the editor to the RIAForge web site.
Its a pretty basic application but I plan to add some new features over the next few months so I wanted to make it work with CF7 as the earlier version didn't.
Let me know if there are any other changes you would like to see.
You can download the code from http://wireframe.riaforge.org/
As far as an enhancement: It's been a long time since I've used FB 3 and the 'generate code' feature generates FB3 switch statements. I'm not sure how much work would be involved in generating FB5 circuit files, but I'd be willing to help. I think the biggest issue would be in determining how to organize the code. Should major areas of the app have sub-controllers? This is much more subjective and might require additional user-input options.
You will be pleased to know I already have the FB5 code generator working on my machine. I hope to release it soon.
Its good to see someone using this old tool. I understand your problem and have come across it many times myself. I usually solve it by doing a couple of things which seem to help but do have an additional downside.
The first is to take any links that are in the main (usually left hand side) menu and putting them in a separate dummy page. This means that I don't have to repeat them on every page.
The second is to break the wireframe into several smaller wireframes each dedicated to a single area of the site.
This unfortunately makes link checking worse since all the links to other wireframes come up as undefined. I am thinkiong about a fix for this so that using a two part name "wireframeName.linkName" that could check from wireframe to another.
Breaking the wireframe into multiple also helps later with code generation at the start of coding since each wireframe becomes a
separate circuit in the final fusebox. (Assuming you are using fusebox).
I will also see what I can do to add a way to see the from links to each fuseaction as well.
Is there a way to delete a page without finding it in the main code list and removing it manually?
Finally, what is the menu option for?
This is a great tool. I do admit to also just started using another product for generating the look and fell of my sites for discussion with customers. But once that is over i will switch to the whiteboard and your wireframe tool to build the logic and start me off with the code.
Great work, this should help turn a few more projects from rewrite break hell to 1st time heaven.
If there is one small thing I would like to see would be the chance to link to your initial dsp_dsplay pages to see the layout.