Mockery Tips and Tricks
Today I’m posting the first of what I intend to be a regular series of posts detailing tips, tricks, and lesser-known features in Mockery. You may be using Mockery (if you’re not, get over to the download page and get your copy!) without knowing about some really cool features.
OS Themes
One of Mockery’s most powerful features is one that a surprising number of users don’t take advantage of: the ability to view your mockups as realistic Windows or Mac applications. You can change the OS theme of the current slide on-the-fly using the toolbar buttons:
Populate menubars and menus with common values
You can save a lot of time when adding menus to a mockup by using the Populate with common values command. To do this, first add a menubar to a window by checking the “Has a menubar” box. You’ll see the menubar appear (either in the window or at the top of the slide, depending upon whether the current theme is MacOS X). You can enter the name of a new menu in the text box and press enter to add a new menu.
However, Mockery can help out by adding the default File, Edit, and Help menus for you, including their common menu items. Just right-click on the the menubar (Cmd-click on a Mac) and choose Populate with common values. You’ll see the new menus right away.
Copy as Image, and paste image data into Mockery
You may not know that you can copy any Mockery element to the clipboard as an image and paste it into an email or word processing document. It’s easy. Just highlight the item you want to copy and click the Copy as image button on the toolbar.
You also may not know that you can paste image data directly in to Mockery. This can be very useful for basing new mockups on existing applications. Just take a screenshot of the app you want to modify, then choose Edit-Paste in Mockery. You’ll see a new image element has been added to your document.
Where to learn more
You can find lots of tips and instructions on the support page. Also feel free to get in touch with me via email or on Twitter at getMockery.