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Release - May 2021

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Damon Skelhorn
Damon Skelhorn
Online Wardley Maps developer

Welcome to the May release of OnlineWardleyMaps. Minor release to bring Quality of Life improvements.

Quality of Life Improvements​

Quick Adding Components​

Until today, the only way to add new map components is via the editor. This QoL improvement will allow you to double click anywhere on the map to quickly place a component. Key bindings are present, Press Enter to add or Escape to cancel.

Quick Linking Components​

Until today, the only way to link components was via the editor. This QoL improvement will allow you to click and point to create a new link. To do this, first press CTRL or CMD if MacOS. You'll notice component that can be linked will have a blue drop shadow. Whilst keeping CTRL/CMD pressed, Click the component and begin to move your mouse. You'll notice a line will start to draw. Next, go to the compoent you'd like to connect (whilst keeping CTRL/CMD pressed) and finally click to complete the link.

  1. Press and hold CTRL/CMD throughout the process.
  2. Click the start component.
  3. Move your mouse to the end component.
  4. Click the end component.
  5. Release CTRL/CMD.
  6. Done.

At any point, you can release CTRL/CMD and the linking process will cancel.

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Bugfixes​

A small bug presented itself when dragging/dropping components (the maptext was not correctly updated with new coordinates) when the first line of the maptext was either a comment or blank line