MindNode 1.1

May 12, 2008 at 3:43 pm

I just released MindNode 1.1. This update brings major improvements to the way text is handled in my application. I hope you enjoy the new features.

Notable new features

  • FreeMind export functionality
  • Nodes grow depending on their position and effect sub-nodes
  • Improved node positioning
  • Spellchecking support
  • Drag Canvas with the mouse

Detailed Release Notes

  • (New) FreeMind export.
  • (New) Spell checking and grammar checking support.
  • (New) Drag canvas with the mouse (during space pressed).
  • (New) Left-aligned nodes grow to the left side.
  • (New) During title editing, sub-nodes reposition accordingly.
  • (New) Menu items “Deselect All” and “Duplicate”.
  • (New) Save and restore window attributes (postion, size, scroll position, zoom level).
  • (Update) The window zoom button works as intended and no longer resize the window to full screen.
  • (Update) When opening a new document the entire canvas is shown.
  • (Update) Slightly reduced vertical canvas border offset.
  • (Update) Sub-nodes are created below each other.
  • (Update) Additional undo action names.
  • (Update) Pressing ESC during dragging a node out of the node well (rounded plus sign) will cancel this operation.
  • (Update) The canvas is accepting click-through events for all actions.
  • (Update) Removed localizations for language currently not support from the sparkle software updater. This saves about 3 MB of disk space.
  • (Update) Pressing ESC during node title editing will no longer abort editing, but will display the “complete word” dialog.
  • (Update) Improvements to the positioning algorithm.
  • (Update) Improved crash reporter.
  • (Update) Delete node during editing it’s title.
  • (Update) Command+Dragging allows selecting and moving with one gesture.
  • (Update) Double-click+Dragging allows repositioning a node.
  • (Fix) A great number of typos fixed.
  • (Fix) Sometimes the scroll view jumped location when resizing the canvas.
  • (Fix) “Zoom In” shortcut mapping corrected.
  • (Fix) When an inspector color well is active, the node stroke color won’t be set by the color panel.
  • (Fix) Deleting nodes by pressing delete forward on the keyboard.
  • (Fix) Scroll to node when moving a node before entering edit mode.
  • (Fix) Cycling and centering the root node is no longer possible when in edit mode.
  • (Fix) Scrollbar geometry.
  • (Fix) Aborting node creating with ESC no longer results with undo operations on the undo stack.
  • (Fix) Pressing Command / Option / Control and a character key at the same time no longer results in entering the edit mode.
  • (Fix) Loading an invalid input format no longer crashes the application.

Download MindNode 1.1

A quick note for beta testers

May 2, 2008 at 7:55 pm

I just uploaded MindNode 1.1 beta 2. Please use the software updater within MindNode to update to the new version. This is a private beta release. I hope to release 1.1 final at the beginning of next week.