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Cidi Labs Design Tools Release Notes

September 4, 2018

Overview

This months release includes some fun new features and a variety of other improvements.

New Features

New Color Picker Beta

There is a new color picker available for testing.

new color picker

Here is a highlight of some of the new features:

Keyboard accessible
Auto updating Institutional color palettes
Ability to favorite colors
View and select colors that are already used in the current content
Save custom user color palettes including the ability to add labels
Basic and Expanded default color palettes

Original/Basic Palette

New Expanded Palette
Work with all colors for the current element in the same interface (background, text, and borders)

To learn more about the new color picker and how to turn it on, read the Colors for Current Element - Beta page in the Design Tools User Guide.

Box Styles Tool

The new box styles tool allows you to turn just about any element into a stylized box. Read on for examples.

box styles interface

Add padding and borders and set the colors:

Round the Edges:

Add Drop Shadows:

Mix and Match:

Apply to almost anything:

“Some men see things as they are and say, why; I dream things that never were and say, why not.”
- Robert F. Kennedy

This is just some random text to help illustrate the point. The funky oil reveals itself as a topmost mitten to those who look. Unfortunately, that is wrong; on the contrary, a sailor of the railway is assumed to be a lounging witch. The bugle of a speedboat becomes a mnemic capital. However, decimals are agog frowns.

This is just some random text for example purposes. A viola of the mouth is assumed to be a canny judge. The blushless turkish comes from a baggy jam. The macled lunch comes from a required calf. However, a fadeless patient's clef comes with it the thought that the sprucest saxophone is a carp.

Learn more about this tool by reading Create and Apply Box Styles in the Design Tools User Guide.

Updated or Modified Features

Accordion/Tab Load time Updated: 08/28/2018

The battle with Canvas on when to create accordions continues. The challenge comes when content loaded into Canvas using external tools is trying to load inside an accordion or tab. Sometimes it doesn't work and sometimes it works but is scaled poorly.

Previous Approach

wait until all content loaded to create the panel widgets.

New Approach

Only delay widget creation if there is iframed content inside, otherwise, create it as soon as possible.

Note: If you have content that is not loading properly when inside of an accordion, tab, expander or popup, please let us know. Send the HTML for your content and an explanation to support@cidilabs.com.

Shortcuts to User Guide added to Current Element Style Tools

A book icon has been added to the top right of the various Current Element Style tools that will take you directly to the User Guide for that particular tool.

current element guide link

47 New Font-Awesome Icons

Font-Awesome version 5.3.1 introduced the following new icons (hover over an icon to see its name):

Religion

Misc

This brings the grand total of icons available up to 1,865 icons (although there are quite a few duplicates in the Canvas icon font).

Image Border Preview Size

The size of the preview images when choosing an image border has been decreased to better utilize space in the sidebar.

Session Storage not Local Storage

User settings have been transitioned from using local storage in the browser to session storage. This should prevent one user's settings from transferring to another user that logs into Canvas using the same computer and browser.

Bug Fixes

Unwrap button visibility

An issue was resolved that caused the Unwrap button in the Additional Actions tool to be disabled once it was clicked preventing it from being used more than once.

Navigation Focus Fixed: 08/30/2018

The core theme CSS has been updated to resolve an issue where the navigation bars for a few of the themes had a hover state but were missing a focus state.

Expand/Collapse all checkbox Fixed: 08/30/2018

The option to turn off the Expand/Collapse all for expand boxes was a little off. It is turned on by default but sometimes the checkbox was not checked by default.

Firefox Syllabus Save Bug Fixed: 08/06/2018

Resolved an issue that was preventing the syllabus from saving when using Firefox.