For example, you could create a switch component and send a message out when the switch is on. You can send messages out of a component and use the Receive trigger to intercept them, adding whatever responses you wish. You use Send and Receive together to extend the functionality of your components. The guide panel showing component features Send and Receive You can tap this icon to open the updates panel at any time but when an update has been published a discreet flashing dot will appear on this icon to let you know there are updates. Within the component panel nestled between the list/grid view toggle and the pin panel button sits the library update button denoted by a book icon with a lightning bolt inside. This might at first be confusing so just so you know, that's how it currently works. I emphasize search, there is no filtering so when you navigate into a library and enter a search term you are actually going to receive results from all libraries. You can also search for items by name across all of your interaction libraries. If you have long names then the list view is useful as names aren’t truncated like they are when you are in Grid view. You can also view interaction libraries as a grid of thumbnails or as a list. You can organize components into groups by using the forward-slashes e.g Buttons/My Button.Įach group is collapsable toggling the disclosure triangle. The revamped components panel showing libraries To read more about Send and Receive see my previous article ProtoPie components 101. Like all components, they make use of Send and Receive to pass messages so you can use them to trigger responses and make interactive UI. This means you can’t gain access to their inner workings but you can freely use them in your own projects. These libraries differ from interaction libraries you create because they are locked. These libraries are built and supplied by ProtoPie themselves and consist of a library for the Material Design UI Kit and the iOS UI Kit. These libraries are connected to your Individual plan or if you are in a team, your personal space. You can also create new team libraries but tapping the +. You will notice a back button that will take you back to the main component list. Here you will see all the team libraries listed. You can also navigate to the instances of a component by ctrl/right-clicking a component and choosing Go to Instance. You can use this as a quick way to find and add components you have already used in your pie to add more instances. When you drag out a component into a scene it will be added to this section. Any components saved here are only accessible to the Pie you create them in. You can think of this as the current version of the components panel in version 4. In the component panel you have the following features: Using interaction librariesĪll interaction libraries associated with your team account can be accessed from a revamped component panel. For any freelance designer, I can see this as a definite need. With this method, you don’t get the connectivity of updates but it does still allow you to use your libraries outside of teams. There is a workaround to this which is to create a library of components as a regular Pie file as ProtoPie 5.0 has an Export as New Library feature. For the ability to share a library you need to have a Team plan. With an Individual plan, you can create personal libraries for use within your own prototypes but because a library file isn’t physically saveable to your computer you can’t share the library with other designers. It's worth mentioning at this point that the features of interaction libraries differ depending on whether you have an Individual or Team plan. Publishing changes to Cloud make interaction libraries accessible to you or other team members to use. Instead, they are synced from ProtoPie Cloud to ProtoPie Studio. For example, library files can't be saved locally like a regular Pie file. The new revamped component panel showing libraries
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