Release 0.5.0
From FreeMind
Release 0.5.0 is a follow-up on release 0.4.0, released on 2002-08-24.
New features
Some of the new features and enhancements of FreeMind 0.5.0:
- Multiline nodes (previously, only single-line nodes were possible)
- Hyperlinks to web pages and to any local file (previously, only hyperlinks to mind map files were possible)
- Find (new action)
- Selection of a node on mouseover (previously, the user had to click)
- Clicking while holding shift selects a region of nodes
- Right click on the background shows the list of opened mind maps
- Drag and drop, with move, copy, and copy formatting, depending on which mouse key is held; dropping as a child or a sibling
- Dragging the background of the mind map moves it around (panning)
- Copy function (Control + C) added; Cut function was already there
- Copy function puts plain text and RTF on the clipboard, apart from a mind map
- Pasting plain text pastes as a tree based on the number of leading spaces
- Export to HTML (new action)
- Increased performance on loading a mind map, 3-4 times
- Executable "Freemind.exe" for launching FreeMind in Windows: no DOS shell window when running FreeMind
- Remembering the last open mind map and opening it on startup
- The keyboard shortcuts were changed to suit Windows style: Control + C instead of Alt + C
- Import Explorer bookmarks (new action)
- Import folder structure (new action)
Previous release: Release 0.4.0
Next release: Release 0.6.0