SciPlore MindMapping Changelog

What's new in SciPlore MindMapping Beta 16

Jul 15, 2011
  • New: Bookmarks and comments in PDFs are renamed when the linking node in a mind map is renamed
  • New: PDF can now be opened on the page where the bookmark is (only Acrobat)
  • Improved: Recommendations are now also based on selection in incoming window
  • Improved: Recommendations can be deactivated
  • Improved: Smart Update is default update mechanism now, instead of thorough Update
  • Improved: Import Highlighted text is selected by default
  • Improved: Zotero and Mendeley BibTeX file support should work now more reliably, also under Linux
  • Improved: Layout of recommendations changed
  • Fixed: Under some circumstances CPU load of the software was 100% even if nothing was done
  • Fixed: Null pointer exception when last opened mind map was closed
  • Fixed: Some users could not open PDF links out of a mind map
  • Fixed: Mind Maps were destroyed in some cases when the user was using a proxy server
  • Fixed: Exception under MacOS when monitoring folder was updated
  • Fixed: Monitoring did not work for some users

New in SciPlore MindMapping Beta 15 (Mar 29, 2011)

  • New: Literature recommendations with free full-text link in incoming window
  • New: Automatic Web Service check (message if an old version is used)
  • New: Logging of recommendations, usage data, and incoming window status
  • New: "Import Annotations from PDFs" is now valid globally (not only for drag and drop but, e.g. for monitoring directory)
  • New: Monitoring node works with relative path, too
  • New: Overview mind map on first start
  • Improved: Identification of comments in PDF files improved
  • Improved: Behaviour of icons in incoming window
  • Improved: BibTeX files from Mendeley with multiple files can now be read
  • Fixed: Cancelling monitoring update did not work on all computers (continued in background)
  • Fixed: Renaming imported bookmarks did not work before saving a mind map
  • Fixed: Licence was not shown when selected in menu
  • Fixed: Ref key sometimes wasn`t assigned to imported comments (bookmarks worked)

New in SciPlore MindMapping Beta 11 (Sep 21, 2010)

  • New: Copy several BibTeX keys from different nodes at once
  • New: Open the folder that contains the software's log files via the menu
  • New: Keyboard shortcuts for the most important functions
  • New: Backup reminder (user is asked to activate backup after 10th software start)
  • New: Information retrieval reminder
  • New: Usage statistics implemented
  • New: More options for PDF monitoring (update automatically on opening a mind map and read (no) sub directories)
  • Improved: PDF Bookmarks are not only imported when a PDF is linked via Drag&drop but also via all other options to insert a PDF
  • Improved: Width of attributes (monitoring directroy, BibTeX keys, ...) restricted to 350px (looks better)
  • Improved: Default selection method is now "on click"
  • Improved: User name is not stored in mind maps any more
  • Improved: Preferences dialog completely renewed
  • Improved: Update info can be "paused" for one version
  • Improved: Updatecheck and usage data now via webservice
  • Improved: Smarter menu (some options are not available anymore when they would not make sense)
  • Improved: Better handling of timeouts (so far it took sometimes 30 seconds)
  • Fixed: Various errors when no internet connection was available
  • Fixed: Version in registry wasn't updated
  • Fixed: References keys for PDFs were not imported if the PDF had no bookmarks
  • Fixed: Under some circumstances references keys from Mendeley bib file were not imported (some special characters had unsual encoding)
  • Fixed: Sometimes monitoring of PDFs did not work
  • Fixed: Link to licence was broken
  • Fixed: SciPlore Mindmapping should not occur anymore in MacOS version
  • Fixed: Some corrupt PDF files caused SciPlore MindMapping to crash
  • Fixed: Counter for new reference keys was always one too high

New in SciPlore MindMapping Beta 10 (Jun 23, 2010)

  • New: Special MacOS version released (We hope it works fine. As we have only a virtual machine to test it, some problems might still occur)
  • Improved: SciPlore MindMapping should run with Linux now
  • Fixed: Sometimes mind maps were not transfered correctly to our backup server

New in SciPlore MindMapping 0.9 Beta (May 8, 2010)

  • Fixed: Under some circumstances existing mind maps were overwritten with a 0 KB mind map

New in SciPlore MindMapping 0.8 Beta (Apr 27, 2010)

  • Fixed: Authentification for mind map backup failed even for correct user name and password

New in SciPlore MindMapping 0.7 Beta (Apr 24, 2010)

  • Improved: Monitoring functions considers .doc, .docx, .txt, .xls, .xlsx, .odt, .rtf files in addition to .pdf
  • Improved: Increased performance of monitoring function as folders named .svn are not monitored any more
  • Fixed: In Windows, mind map file type is now SciPlore MindMapping Map (before: FreeMind Map)
  • Fixed: Monitoring function crashed when certain types of hyperlinks were in a mind map.
  • Fixed: Cancelling update of monitoring directory did not work
  • Fixed: "Copy reference key" did not work as attribute was case insensitive

New in SciPlore MindMapping 0.6 Beta (Apr 17, 2010)

  • New: Title is extracted from BibTeX file and displayed in mind map
  • New: BibTeX files created by Mendeley can now be processed
  • Fixed: On software update, old preferences are taken
  • Fixed: Several internal bugs
  • Fixed: Saving mind maps produced error when not internet connection was available

New in SciPlore MindMapping 0.5 Beta (Apr 6, 2010)

  • New: Backup mind maps to SciPlore.org
  • New: Information retrieval on your mind maps
  • Improved: Monitoring works with relative paths
  • Improved: Titles for status messages
  • Fixed: Monitoring function imported all bookmarks in all nodes not only in the monitoring node
  • Fixed: Nested bookmarks were not imported
  • Fixed: Only one PDF was imported when several files were drag&dropped to the software
  • Fixed: Defect PDFs were not imported
  • Fixed: Java check showed misleading error messages

New in SciPlore MindMapping 0.4 Beta (Mar 16, 2010)

  • New: Java Check (if Java is not installed, the user is notified)
  • New: Entries from right mouse click dialog are now in main menue as well
  • New: Logging is activated by default
  • New: Update to FreeMind's code base 0.9 RC 7
  • Improved: Monitoring folder do not list files that are linked elsewhere in the mind map
  • Improved: Optimal Width is now applied automatically to reference attributes
  • Fixed: False notifcations should not appear any more
  • Fixed: Header of mind maps is now correct

New in SciPlore MindMapping 0.3 Beta (Mar 9, 2010)

  • New: Monitoring function for folders to import PDF files
  • New: Video showing SciPlore MindMappings capabilities now available on YouTube
  • Improved: Replaced PDF Box library with JPod library from BerliOS
  • Fixed: Bookmarks from PFDs created with Adobe Acrobat 9.x were not imported
  • Fixed: Bookmarks from PDFs with two or more dots in the filename were not imported
  • Fixed: PDFs without bookmarks are now correctly imported
  • Fixed: PDF bookmarks were not imported when a PDF was added via file dialog

New in SciPlore MindMapping 0.2 Beta (Mar 9, 2010)

  • New: Preference Dialog is now repared for performing information retrieval on mind maps, backups, etc.
  • New: Update PDF bookmarks in mind map (via context menu)
  • New: Reference key can now be copied as cite\{Reference Key} to clipboard
  • Improved: Code base updated from FreeMind Max RC4 to FreeMind Max RC6
  • Improved: When editing the reference key manually, the focus now is set automatically on the reference key and not the attribute name splmm_refkey
  • Improved: Source code cleaned and redundancies removed
  • Improved: All strings are now in the appropriate properties file
  • Fixed: When changing a BibTeX key in the BibTeX database, the key is now updated correctly in the mind maps
  • Fixed: Attribute bug (splmm_refkey was sometimes called SPLMM REFKEY)

New in SciPlore MindMapping 0.1 Beta (Mar 9, 2010)

  • First public version of SciPlore MindMapping.