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| The development of FreeMind is coordinated using FreeMind's [http://sourceforge.net/projects/freemind/ project page] at SourceForge, and also using this wiki. At wiki, we have '''[[requests for enhancements]]''' page; there is also [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=7118&atid=357118 requests for enhancements] (RFEs) page at SourceForge (not preferred). You can [http://freemind.cvs.sourceforge.net/freemind/ browse CVS repository]. | | The development of FreeMind is coordinated using FreeMind's [http://sourceforge.net/projects/freemind/ project page] at SourceForge, and also using this wiki. At wiki, we have '''[[requests for enhancements]]''' page; there is also [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=7118&atid=357118 requests for enhancements] (RFEs) page at SourceForge (not preferred). You can [http://freemind.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=freemind/freemind;a=summary browse] our new [[GIT]] repository. |
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| We also use SourceForge for [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=7118&atid=107118 bugs], and [http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=22101 open discussion forum]. We do not use the documentation part there as we use this wiki instead. | | We also use SourceForge for [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=7118&atid=107118 bugs], and [http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=22101 open discussion forum]. We do not use the documentation part there as we use this wiki instead. |
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| ==Contributing to FreeMind== | | ==Contributing to FreeMind== |
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| There are different possible ways of taking part in the FreeMind development: the project needs people for:
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| * documenting of the program
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| * translating its interface
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| * translating its documentation in foreign languages
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| : ''Currently, FreeMind project is after a feature freeze, heading quickly to the testing phase. An important current contribution is testing.'' --[[User:Danielpolansky|Dan Polansky]] 23:59, 31 Aug 2007 (PDT)
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| * releasing screenshots: if you have a nice screenshot of FreeMind, please help by releasing it under an open-source licence in [http://commons.wikimedia.org/ Wikimedia Commons].
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| ==Getting started as a developer== | | ==Getting started as a developer== |
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| See [[Getting started as a tester]]. | | See [[Getting started as a tester]]. |
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| == Organization of FreeMind development == | | ==Reporting bugs== |
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| Initially, every active developer of the core team works on his own CVS branch. Our intermediate results are
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| published as our "alpha versions". We use forum [http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=22101 Open Discussion] and section [[Experimental_versions]] on this wiki page to communicate them.
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| Further details about the FreeMind release process are described on the FreeMind [[Release process]] page.
| | ==Organization of FreeMind development== |
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| === Experimental versions ===
| | Initially, every active developer of the core team works on his own GIT branch. Our intermediate results are |
| | published as our "alpha versions". We use forum [http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=22101 Open Discussion] to communicate them. |
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| Currently, there are the following experimental versions available. They are not meant for productive use; use at your own risk!
| | Further details about the FreeMind release process are described on the FreeMind [[Release process]] page. |
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| ==== FreeMind 0.9.0 beta 9 with Node Attributes, Map Filters and WYSIWYG rich text node editor====
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| Attaching of named attributes to every node, filtering of the displayed map content based on node text, node icons and node attributes, HTML based rich text formatting for nodes and notes, fit for Java6, a script editor is included in the script plugin
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| * [https://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=4190697 Discussion forum thread]
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| * [https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7118&package_id=188772&release_id=488111 Downloads]
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| --[[User:Rben13|Rben13]] 10:06, 3 Sep 2007 (PDT)
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| == Conceptual remarks ==
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| === Original vision of Joerg Mueller ===
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| Joerg Muller is the original author of FreeMind, developing it up to the version 0.4.0. Here follows what he's got to say on his original vision:
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| : What I had in mind when I began to write FreeMind, was creating a collaborative mind where people can intuitively share their ideas, knowledge and thoughts with each other. Of course FreeMind is only a first step into this direction, but I did this first step. Now a Mode must be implemented that makes collaboration over the Internet possible, maybe using the Topic-Map standard. I think linear text is a very poor way of representing knowledge, and by using trees and networks, visual representation, internet collaboration and open source we should be able to create some kind of a collaborative mind.
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| : FreeMind now has evolved from a specific Mind Map Editor to a generic editor for tree structured data. I want FreeMind to become for tree structured data what emacs is for linear data (ie. text).
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| One may think of extending FreeMind to work with networks as opposed to trees only, an example of this being Topic Maps (ISO).
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| Daniel Polansky: Joerg's vision of FreeMind becoming Emacs for tree data is intriguing, but rather far fetched at the time. You would need to provide scripting facility and at least many basic operations, like upcase, downcase, replace and many others. It is even not evident that this goal valuable compared to other goals - there many quite obvious and still missing features.
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| === Why may FreeMind be more relevant than some other open source applications ===
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| : ''A simplistic and personal consideration by Daniel Polansky.''
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| There are many efforts to create new text editors, text processor and the like. While this activity is not without value, it does not fill that big value gap as mind mapping application.
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| Take, for instance, text editors like JEdit. There are already well estabilished text editors like Emacs or Vim, and there are many others. It's not that these editors would be perfect, far from that, but they're still pretty useful and with some training users can become very efficient with them.
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| With text processors, the thing is that most users in companies have already Microsoft Office for free. What does that mean? That means that the individual users do not have to pay for the MS Office, and they cannot effectively decide to use other Office platform either because of the value of easy sharing. Furthermore, there are competing free Office platforms like KOffice, OpenOffice or AbiWord.
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| In mind mapping, the situation is quite different. You do not get commercial alternative granted in companies, unlike office applications. The point here is that most of MS Windows users, the mainstream, do not have a mind mapping application yet. For them, starting to use FreeMind is not a switch from Microsoft product to alternative product. It is a switch from scattered documents in incomparable and hard-to-overview formats to one document with unprecedented order and transparency - FreeMind's mind map.
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| Therefore, I am expecting a growth of interest of free developers in developing and using this application.
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| Furthermore, even though Java is quite slow and memory hungry, it solves the never ending quarrel between religious die-hard fans of different computing platforms, which I have first experienced with Atari 800 XL versus Commodore 64 battle, later IBM compatible versus Commodore Amiga battle, and nowadays Windows versus Linux battles.
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| == Misc ==
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| === Creating proper copyright notice ===
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| A source file may be viewed as a sum ''b'' + ''d<sub>1</sub>'' + ''d<sub>2</sub>'' + ... + ''d<sub>k</sub>'', where ''b'' is the basis, ''d<sub>i</sub>'' are deltas (or patches), and the plus operator is the operator of applying a patch. The basis and each delta have their own copyright holder and the year of copyright.
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| If there is only one author and one year, then the copyright notice is simple.
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| If there is only one author and more years, then the copyright notice may look like
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| Copyright © 2003-2005 Big Author
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| If there are more authors, then the copyright notice consists of more lines, like
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| Not all changes are eligible for copyright. If a change is small, then it does not make sense to add a line to the copyright notice for it.
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| Copyright notice is not required for copyright to hold. It makes claiming your right at court easier.
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| The correctness of these instructions is not granted. They are subject to improvement as we see fit.
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| --[[User:Danielpolansky|Danielpolansky]] 11:29, 3 Jun 2005 (PDT)
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| === Translating FreeMind into your language ===
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| === Libraries and tools used in FreeMind === | | ==Experimental versions== |
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| * [http://nanoxml.cyberelf.be/ NanoXML]
| | Currently, there are no experimental versions available. The latest release candidate can be downloaded from [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7118 Files section]. |
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| == Implementation ==
| | ==Obtaining focus for selected node in reliable manner== |
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| ===Obtaining focus for selected node in reliable manner===
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| Requesting focus for NodeView using requestFocus() method is unreliable. A reliable way of doing that has been implemented in the method <code>obtainFocusForSelected()</code> of Controller. A typical call in ControllerAdaper.java is | | Requesting focus for NodeView using requestFocus() method is unreliable. A reliable way of doing that has been implemented in the method <code>obtainFocusForSelected()</code> of Controller. A typical call in ControllerAdaper.java is |
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| where <code>newSelected</code> is a NodeView is unreliable, though most often works. | | where <code>newSelected</code> is a NodeView is unreliable, though most often works. |
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| === To set the class load path in manifest.mf in jar ===
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| In the source folder tree of FreeMind, there's a file MANIFEST.MF. This file tells what
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| Main-Class: freemind.main.FreeMind
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| Class-Path: silk.jar nanoxml.jar ekit.jar kafenio.jar
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| kafenio-config.jar kafenio-icons.jar gnu-regexp-1.1.4.jar
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| Created-By: Joerg Mueller
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| A tricky thing about the file is that the length of the lines can be
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| In the exaple above, the first line of Class-Path is set in such a way
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| the actual list of classes. In the freemind.jar, the file can be found in the
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| == More development pages == | | == More development pages == |