We have received many email from our users, some of them were asking about how to activate a Mockplus Pro Account after the purchase. Actully, The account has been already upgraded at the moment of purchase.

Let’s see how it’s done.

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Personal Users

For personal users (the user who buy one Mockplus Classic at a time) , Mockplus Classic will automatically activate Pro version features for you (Neither license key nor other manual operations are needed).

What is Mockplus Classic? Mockplus Classic is a rapid desktop prototyping tool that translates your ideas into fully interactive prototypes, lets you test and share your prototypes, and collaborate with ease. With Mockplus Classic, you can: Create prototypes with pre-built component, icon, style and UI libraries. What is Mockplus Classic? Mockplus Classic is a rapid desktop prototyping tool that translates your ideas into fully interactive prototypes, lets you test and share your prototypes, and collaborate with ease. With Mockplus Classic, you can: Create prototypes with pre-built component, icon, style and UI libraries. Mockplus is designer-friendly and easy to use. What’s really helpful, it offers the all-platform functionality to prototype for web and mobile. Commonly used interface elements and multiple templates are nigh at hand. Mockplus Classic Annual License is licensed per user, per year. It includes all updates and upgrades within the license period. To continue to use the software after 1 year, you need to renew the annual license. Mockplus Classic Perpetual License is licensed per user with no expiration. It includes all new versions and updates, minor or major.

You can log in the Account Page to make sure that you are already a Pro Version user now. There’ll be a “PRO” under your username.

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Group Buying / Third Party Purchase

For users who placed a group buying order, or purchased Mockplus Classic Pro from a third party can activate their accounts by following the steps below.

Step 1 – Log in www.mockplus.com. Click your username on the top right to open the User Account Page. Then, go to “MY GROUP BUYING” section.

Step 2 – Click “Verify license key to upgrade to Pro version” to open the verification page. Then, enter one of your license keys and click “UPGRADE NOW” to finish activation.

Now you have full accesses to all of the advanced features of Mockplus Classic.

Those who have used Mockplus know that the prototyping tool doesn’t support mouse hover directly now. But today, I found that it’s not so hard to realize a mouse hover event with Mockplus as long as I change my methods. For example, the mouse hover drop down menu, which can be easily made with the state interaction of Mockplus.

(In the last article I introduced that how to create an accordion menu with Mockplus quickly in 3 steps. If you are interested in it, just go through it and I believe that you will benefit a lot.)

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Now let's go back to today's topic and see how to make a mousehover dropdown menu with Mockplus easily:

Step 1 - Make a menu with Rectangle.

Launch Mockplus. Drag a rectangle component to the canvas and copy it for several times. Make one of them as the top of the menu,and the others, the content part (see the following image) .

Select the first rectangle in the content part and uncheck the “visible” property on the properties panel on the right. Then, group the five rectangles.

Step 2 – Move the rectangles

Put the blue rectangle to the place of the invisible one. On the properties panel, send the blue rectangle backward. Now you can still see it since the component covering it is invisible(1st step).

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Step 3 – realize the mouse hover dropdown menu with state interactions.

Select the group. Set the opacity value as 0 and click the lighting icon near it. Select “MouseHover” option and set the opacity value as 100.

Now a simple mouse hover dropdown menu is created. Click the 'Preview' button on the top of the interface to see the effect.

This is the magic power of prototyping:realize infinite effects with finite elements. It’s just like playing the piano.The keys are limited but the music is infinite. For those excellent designers,it’s not how many functions a prototyping tool has that matters most, since the more features a tool has, the more complicated the operations are.

As an easy-to-use prototyping tool, Mockplus enables designers to create products on a simple but not limited platform. Thus, whether you are new to design field, or you are a veteran designer/PM, Mockplus really worth a try.

A short introduction to Mockplus

Mockplus is a desktop-based tool for prototyping mobile, web and desktop apps easily and quickly. Create interactions by simple drag-and-drops and your teamwork will be time-efficient with the collaboration features.

This is the way to make a hover drop down menu with Mockplus. For more tutorials, go to doc.mockplus.com.

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