Flash browser

There is a GNU GPL licenced Flash browser for FreeMind. Download it (50 KB), unzip the archive, and read readme.txt, or double click mindmaps.html. The latest version of the Flash browser is 1.0b.

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• Flash browser

Feedback

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• New version of Freemind flash Browser — discussion thread at Open Discussion forum

Troubleshooting

• If the Flash browser is working but it shows an empty map, see if you can load your freemind file in a webbrowser. I had to rename the .mm to .xml (and adapt the .html) because my provider won't serve file of which the mime type can't be inferred. It didn't know how to handle mm-files and instead showed a 404 error page.
• for an "Apache" server, adding the following lines in the "htaccess" file may resolve the problem :

AddType application/x-shockwave-flash swf
AddType application/x-freemind mm

• if your mindmap is called, for instance, "work_map.mm", change its name into "index.mm" : it will work
• The browser works fine. I tried to put all FreeMind related files (.mm, .jpg) in a subfolder "data" and changed the line to

fo.addVariable("initLoadFile", getMap("data/index.mm"));

and everything worked fine, except images. After editing the .mm files and adding "data/" to all image URLs everything worked fine again.

See also

• Flash browser in action with documentation of the flash browser (at efectokiwano.net)
• Blog on the browser with How-to section showing succintly how to set-up the browser at your site
• Source code of the flash browser in CVS
• Macromedia Flash.
• New version of Freemind flash Browser — discussion thread at Open Discussion forum