This version features a major refactoring of the view hierarchy allowing shadows to be shown outside of views, even when clipping is activated for subviews.
A lot of new nodes were also added, mostly allowing more properties to be set for a view such as shadows, gradients etc. These nodes replace the previous view node “Interface View”, which was limited and old.
Release notes:
This release offers an updated view hierarchy, allowing shadows to be shown outside views, even when clipping is active. A lot of new nodes have been added, replacing the ”one size fits all” node ”InterfaceNode”. Overall memory management optimisations, show borders in view editor added and a small UI update to the browser also made it in there.
Along the top of any iOS device there is an area that iOS reserves for system features such as the status bar and notch on iPhone X+ or the home indicator line on devices without a home button.
Because this area varies between different iOS devices, layouts created in Nodeo needed to be tall enough to not be hidden behind the notch, but would then look bloated on devices without a notch.
Project settings now offer an option to respect this safe area in a few different ways (none, top, bottom or top and bottom) in order to constrain your layout within the safe margins. You can then extend your sub views outside their parent frame to cover this area. Just remember to turn off “Clip” for the parent view in the Layout panel.
Basic templates
In order to demonstrate safe area insets, we added the option to create new projects from basic templates.
You can choose from 5 different templates; Single view (which is basically an empty project), Navigation bar or Tab bar with Navigation bar. The last two also offer an option to include a collection view showing a list of strings.
Tab bar controllers also have the choice of creating 2-5 tabs, to make it blazingly fast to jump start your project!
Dark mode
Lastly, 3 system colors have been added to support light and dark mode. The system colors can’t be altered, because they are dynamic to the current system mode. Any other color you add will stay the same regardless of what display mode the user has set.
Reset inport stacking
A node is calculated as soon as all incoming connections (inports) have a value (stacked). After the first calculation, subsequent calculations are done whenever an inport has been updated. When combining several nodes with into a single node, some inports might update more often than others leading to calculations with old data.
Because of this, we have added an option to reset inport stacking, requiring all inports to be updated every time before calculation. An example of where this is necessary is when using the node “Image for url” in combination with the “Collection Item” node. We want to download images for each specific item, but only when a key matches a specific value (see image below), not for other values.
When “reset inport stacking” is active (blue checkbox in node view), the node “Image for url“ will only be calculated when all inports have been updated.
Release notes
App:
Basic templates for new projects allow you to get up and running in no time!
Device screen insets allow you to design your layout within safe ares of all devices!
Editor:
System colors supporting dark mode included in all new projects
Layout panel has been updated and view transparency added
View frames are now automatically rounded to nearest integer
Toggle ”Reset stack” on node views to avoid unexpected values
Version 1.2.3 brings an important update to the node “Image for url” and enables you to download, cache and generate thumbnails for image urls in collection views!
This version brings a lot of new features as well as countless fixes from v.1.1. You can now send push messages, show maps and create stunning designs with gradients and shadows! Files have been integrated in a few places, making it even easier to import graphics into your project. Have fun! Highlights below:
Editor
Gradient panel for views (above or below image)
Shadow panel for views
Import image from Files in image panel
Move views using arrow keys
Updated design of browser
Custom project thumbnail in settings
Node info (available from Add Node table)
Duplicate and delete buttons moved to workspace
Nodes
Notification nodes (local & remote)
Map nodes (map view, annotations, location)
Alert node (system)
Open url node
Generate UUID node
Fixed
Syncing now works better with images
All projects synced via iCloud gives ownership
Deleting a project now also removes it from private iCloud
This update brings an important new feature to Nodeo and addresses a lot of bugs. Here are the release notes from App Store:
New
Automatic private iCloud syncing: If you have an iCloud account, presentations will automatically sync between devices
Ports: Border color added making it a lot easier to identify matching port types and optional ports marked with asterisk (*)
Keyboard shortcuts: Help screen now available (hold down CMD during edit or present)
Nodes: Filter & sort array, scale image and string value nodes added
Fixed
Done outport fixed for transition nodes
Post & Get request nodes fixed (app transport bug & response handling)
Import photo node has been split into Library and Camera node
Frame nodes now calculated after final frame is set during launch of presentation
Edit text was setting the label color to default white
Subview variables were not removed when parent view was deleted
Private iCloud syncing
This makes it a lot easier when working with a presentation targeted towards iPhone users. As soon as you launch your project on iPad, the generated thumbnail and application data is automatically uploaded to iCloud. Nodeo automatically checks for updates during startup, but you can also refresh manually if the app is open.