Hey there,
I am having fun using Indigo Studio; it is quite intuitive for a person like myself, who is relatively new a prototyping, to get some UI design with navigation and animation going quickly. One thing I have not found yet is a way to make a screen semi-opaque, to appear as a dialog above the previous screen. Is there a way to do this now, or would it be a feature request?
Thanks a lot for this very useful free tool,Francis
PS - Looks like the website still thinks I am at IG! :)
Let me add to what D said--we envisioned most dialogs/popups/popovers as being over a screen, so that's why we primarily support them as a layer over the current state.
If you specifically want to support new windows, that can get interesting, depending on platforms you're targeting. For instance, a Web browser new window would limit you in what you can show (and these days most folks eschew actual windows in favor of HTML-based overlays in the same window. Silverlight and, I think, Flash would be similar, at least in browser. And of course most of the current mobile tablet/phone platforms don't like literal windows either. But if you're working on desktop platforms specifically, that might be the more common case for literal new windows. We could add something like partial transparency for them, but we couldn't promise it would work on your target platform, of course.
So all that is a long way to say, if you want literal new windows, suggest that on UserVoice. If you want just dialogs/popovers/popups in the same window, use a Container Box for that.
I have it in my list of blog posts to post a simple how to for this, as well. So keep an eye out if ya want. :)
Thanks for the replies, guys. I am going with the small dialog using a Container Box for now, as Ambrose suggested. If the users here really want to see a prototype with a semi-transparency, then I may come back with a request.