Hi,
Does anybody have a recommendation for a Java software package for drawing the kind of mindmaps
that are often seen in openEHR contexts like for instance the openEHR Clinical Knowledge Manager?
regards
Olof Torgersson
Hi Olof,
FreeMind is a good choice if you want to work with mindmaps! It is platform independent (JAVA software).
See http://sourceforge.net/projects/freemind/
brgds
Hans
Hello Olof
The openEHR Clinical Knowledge Manager does use the Freemind browser for
the visualisation of the archetypes.
There are Flash:
http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Flash_browser
...and Java Applet versions:
http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Applet
All the best
Athanasios Anastasiou
Freemind is indeed used in CKM to draw the mindmaps. It is now showing
its age a little and I understand there have been moves for the
Freemind project to be folded in to Xmind (www.xmind.net) which is a
free, open-source java-based mindmap editor. Xmind is much more
capable and competitive with commercial offerings such as Mindmanager
but would need some work to 'componentise' as I understand things.
Heather Leslie and I make extensive use of Xmind in designing
archetypes and templates.
Ian
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That’s right, but the Freemind Flash browser is the reason why it is used in CKM -
happy to be proven wrong, but to my knowledge xmind (or any other free mindmapping tool except freemind) does not offer anything that
a) can be used to integrate a mindmap into a website including node collapsing and expanding capabilitites, etc. and
b) allows programmatic creation of the mindmap on the fly based on ADL (Freemind uses a fairly simple xml structure)
Sebastian
Yeah, freemind XML is quite easy. I created a first version of a ADL (CEN EN13606) to freemind converter in less than one day.
In my opinion the big drawback Freemind has at this moment is that it doesn’t display UTF-8 labels correctly (well, flash view does, but not freemind program itself)
2010/10/15 Sebastian Garde <sebastian.garde@oceaninformatics.com>
Hi,
What I´m interested in is to put a Java mindmap viewer into a panel of an application.
That is I’m not interested in the Freemind application, but rather if it’s possible to integrate its mindmaps into another application,
much in the same way as the CKM does.
I’ve taken a brief look at Freemind but didn’t find anything about how this could be done.
Does anyone know if it can be done (well since the source is available it can be done, but some hints on how would make it easier)?
regards
Olof
15 okt 2010 kl. 21.32 skrev Diego Boscá:
Hello Olof
There are at least three ways to do this:
1) Create an html file, or rather an html template containing only the
necessary <object> code to load the freemind flash viewer. One of the
template variables will be the mindmap file you want to show in the
viewer. When you want to display the mindmap, "render" the HTML template
to a file and start a browser with a system call. In other words, the
template will serve as the HTML file skeleton so you don't have to write
the same thing again and again, with the one variable pointing to the
file you want to load. To make it easier for the user, further execution
of your program can be blocked until the user closes the browser window.
Also, you could have some minimal control over where the browser will
open. This is probably the easiest option.
2) Use a Java GUI component that provides support for rendering HTML
(including the <object> tag) and create an html page that embeds the
flash freemind viewer and renders it on a panel. For example:
http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/javax/swing/text/html/HTMLEditorKit.html
3) For total control you could try embedding the freemind viewer itself
from its source code. The code is available at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/freemind/files/
the viewer class is in:
freemind-src-0.9.0_RC_9.tar\freemind\freemind\view\mindmapview\MapView.java
It seems to be extending a JPanel but you will also need the classes
that implement the parsing of the mind map prior to rendering it. Or you
could add Freemind to your class path and have a look at their wiki, i
think there was a page about this there but i don't seem to be able to
find it now.
I hope this helps.
All the best
Athanasios Anastasiou