WireframeSketcher Forum

Annotations on the side for exports

James — Fri, 5 Jun 2026 04:03:26 +0000

Part of my whole reason for using apps like Balsamiq Desktop, and now WireframeSketcher, is a local-first/only workflow. I don't need or want online collaboration. I have a workflow that has worked for several years, and none of it requires me to publish this work online; this is a huge reason why I'm leaving Balsamiq, as they're abandoning their desktop product. I had a notion that maybe PDF could - when annotations aren't toggled off - reserve an area of specific size in the right and/or left margin for notes. At the same time, I know PDFs are kinda the wild west at times, so all respect if that's not a course you wanna pursue. It seems like if notes can be included at the side (as they are in presentation) for online HTML export, this should also be possible for local HTML export. Would that be something we could look forward to?

Annotations on the side for exports

Peter Severin — Thu, 4 Jun 2026 13:20:11 +0000

Hi James,

Thank you for your kind words and for your feedback.

Changing the PDF layout to add a side panel with notes on the same page could be difficult since notes may not fit on the same page.

Have you tried the Share Online option? Notes are exported there too using callouts with text displayed when the callout is hovered.

Changing standalone HTML export is more feasible, but please let me know first how the Online Share approach works for you.

Annotations on the side for exports

James — Wed, 3 Jun 2026 22:00:27 +0000

I'm looking for an alternative to Balsamiq Mockups, and while this Eclipse-like UI is taking some getting used to, I'm liking a lot of what I see here.
The one thing that is like so close to perfect but still missing in a big way is annotations. For me, the ideal place for annotation notes is in a side column to the right. When I share the mockup with developers, clients, etc, these annotations are crucial. To do this in Balsamiq, I have to do it all manually using a community control (Micro Callouts). Balsamiq can "automatically include notes" in an exported PDF, but it puts them on the bottom, forcing any reader to go back and forth while reading the notes, losing context. This is also what WireframeSketcher does for PDFs - puts the annotation notes at the bottom. By contrast, your Presentation view does exactly what would be ideal for export, and the workflow is simple, almost automatic - I add an annotation to the mockup, I fill in notes and everything is taken care of.
Would you consider adding a feature to PDF and/or Batch HTML export that duplicates the Presentation behavior regarding annotation notes?

Re: Does activation require internet access?

Peter Severin — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:59:04 +0000

Hi Krystian

Thank you for your interest in WireframeSketcher. Please note that internet is not required for license activation.

Please let me know if you have any other questions.

Does activation require internet access?

Krystian — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:41:46 +0000

I'm considering buying a license, but I have one concern. Does it require an internet connection for activation/initial setup?

Some of our machines are in an air-gapped environment, so I’m particularly interested in whether offline activation or an alternative procedure is available.

Gradient colors for buttons, dropdown lists.

Peter Severin — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 10:03:14 +0000

Hi Billy,

Currently WireframeSketcher doesn't support gradients. WireframeSketcher generally only provides low-fidelity tools. Could you provide an example of what you are trying to achieve?

Gradient colors for buttons, dropdown lists.

Billy — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 21:36:16 +0000

Does anyone know how to create a gradient color effect? I don't see that as an option for the controls.

Text and Icon in a Table Cell

Peter Severin — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:42:04 +0000

Yes, it's possible to have the text and the icon to the right of it, but you'll need to specify the icon using its full syntax. For example these examples should work:

text {checked}
text {unchecked}

Text and Icon in a Table Cell

Mark McCorkle — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:22:06 +0000

So, is it possible to have text and spaces and an icon in a table cell? I could left align everything and then force the checkbox to the right was spaces. I have tried this without success.

Putting the checkbox in a separate cell would work if I could hide individual column vertical lines. Guess I could put a white line over the vertical but then I may as well just use normal icons for the checkboxes.

Text and Icon in a Table Cell

Peter Severin — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:53:09 +0000

Hi Mark,

Unfortunately it's now possible to have 2 different alignments in the same cell. Would it be acceptable as a workaround to use a second column to the right of the text column to display the check icon?

Text and Icon in a Table Cell

Mark McCorkle — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 13:35:04 +0000

I have the requirement to have text left aligned and a checkbox right aligned in a cell in a table. Is this possible?

I was thinking something like: (align:left).0.75 (align:right).{unchecked} But that does not work.

Should look like this: 0.75 [ ]

Thanks, Mark

Re: How to find link to another project.

Anthony — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 15:04:49 +0000

Nevermind. I went to a command prompt (cmd) and typed this command to find the s

findstr -r "Web" *.screen

How to find link to another project.

Anthony — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 13:23:09 +0000

I have 2 projects in my wifreamesketcher. Web and Mobile. The mobile project has a link to the main page of my web project. Likely because I copied one of the elements from web to mobile. But that was too long ago to know which page in the mobile project I put that element. Both mobile and web have a main page. Since both have a link to the main page within their project, the web link could be on any page within my mobile project. The only way to find it is to manually go through every mobile page and see which page has the web link so that when I export mobile, and no longer see the message " Some of the linked screens are not included in the storyboard. Add missing screens"

When I click "Add missing screens" my entire web project is imported to the mobile project. The first page is the main page of web which could be on any of the mobile pages.

So, my question is, is there a way to search a project for a link without manually checking each link on each page (which is hundreds of pages)?

Re: Splash screen resizes to be clipped on macOS

Peter Severin — Sun, 2 Feb 2025 14:30:28 +0000

This issue was fixed in the latest 7.2.2 version. Thanks again for reporting it!

Re: Error when close screen with two Properties views

Peter Severin — Sun, 2 Feb 2025 14:30:10 +0000

This issue was fixed in the latest 7.2.2 version. Thanks again for reporting it!

Re: Error when close screen with two Properties views

Peter Severin — Wed, 1 Jan 2025 12:19:14 +0000

Thank you for reporting this issue! I could reproduce it locally and will look into it.

Error when close screen with two Properties views

J. Lewis Muir — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 18:17:00 +0000

In WireframeSketcher 7.2.1 on macOS Sequoia 15.2, if I have two Properties views open and have selected a widget in an open screen, if I then close the screen, I get a "Problem Occurred" error dialog

with the following error message:

An error has occurred. See error log for more details.

Cannot invoke "org.eclipse.ui.part.IPageSite.getSelectionProvider()" because the return value of "com.wireframesketcher.ui.mh.getSite()" is null

Steps to reproduce:

Create a new Wireframe project.
Open the automatically created screen NewScreen.screen.
Drag a Button widget into the screen.
Save the screen.
In the Properties view, click the vertical ellipsis icon, and choose New Properties View.
Click the Button widget, and its properties should be displayed in the newly opened Properties view.
Click the X icon on the screen's tab to close the screen, which will result in the error dialog.

I'm not sure what the usefulness of being able to create more than one Properties view is, but it's allowed, and then this can happen.

Re: Splash screen resizes to be clipped on macOS

J. Lewis Muir — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 13:39:27 +0000

Good to hear! Thanks for fixing it! Happy New Year!

Re: Splash screen resizes to be clipped on macOS

Peter Severin — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 11:42:59 +0000

Thanks a lot for taking your time to go down so deeply into this issue! Changing the DPI setting to 72 for the splash image actually fixed the problem. I wasn't even aware that bitmap images can have (and need) such a setting in their metadata. I've also used this occasion to switch from BMP to a more modern PNG format for the splash image, since this is what Eclipse did a few years ago. However there too the DPI needs to be set to 72.

I've used the following command to change the DPI for an existing PNG image to 72:

exiftool -overwrite_original_in_place -PixelsPerUnitX=2835
-PixelsPerUnitY=2835 splash.png

The 2835 value is calculated as: round(72 * 1000 / 25.4) where 72 is the desired DPI. Perhaps this can be useful to others who'll stumble on this post.

I wish you a Happy New Year!

Re: Splash screen resizes to be clipped on macOS

J. Lewis Muir — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 21:58:51 +0000

Might be this Eclipse Platform issue: Eclipse splash image looks bad on macOS #39. If so, then you can fix it by changing the WireframeSketcher splash screen image to 72 DPI.