WiseMapping: a Web based mindmapping application

Project Information

The goal of this project is to provide a high quality product that can be deployed by educational and academic institutions, private and public companies and anyone who needs to have a mindmapping application. WiseMapping is based on the same code source supporting WiseMapping.com. More info: www.wisemapping.org

Compiling and Running

Prerequisites

The following products must be installed: * Java Development Kit 6 or higher (http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp) * Maven 2.2.1 or higher (http://maven.apache.org/)

Compiling

WiseMapping uses Maven as packaging and project management. The project is composed of 4 maven sub-modules: * core-js: Utilities JavaScript libraries * web2d: JavaScript 2D SVG abstraction library used by the mind map editor * mindplot: JavaScript mind map designer core * wise-webapp: J2EE web application

Full compilation of the project can be done executing within :

mvn install

Once this command is execute, the file /wise-webapp/target/wisemapping.war will be generated.

Testing

The previously generated war can be deployed locally executing within the directory /wise-webapp the following command:

mvn jetty:run-war

This will start the application on the URL: http://localhost:8080/wise-webapp/. Additionally, a file based database is automatically populated with a test user.

User: test@wisemapping.org

Running the JS only version

Start by creating the .zip file:

mvn assembly:assembly -Dmaven.test.skip=true

To test the javascript frontend you then do:

unzip target/wisemapping-3.0-SNAPSHOT-editor.zip
cd target/wisemapping-3.0-SNAPSHOT-editor
ruby -rwebrick -e 'WEBrick::HTTPServer.new(:Port=>8000,:DocumentRoot=>".").start' 

Now open a browser using the URL http://localhost:8000/

Attaching drag and drop events.

1. Support for dragging TextNodes:

The following code is an example of how to add attach to the div dragImageNode the support for node dragging.

$("dragTextNode").addEvent('mousedown', function(event) {
    event.preventDefault();

    // Create a image node ...
    var mindmap = designer.getMindmap();
    var node = mindmap.createNode();
    node.setText("Node Text !!!!");
    node.setMetadata("{'media':'test'}");
    node.setShapeType(mindplot.model.TopicShape.RECTANGLE);

    // Add link ...
    var link = node.createFeature(mindplot.TopicFeature.Link.id, {url:"http://www.wisemapping.com"});
    node.addFeature(link);

    // Add Note ...
    var note = node.createFeature(mindplot.TopicFeature.Note.id, {text:"This is a note"});
    node.addFeature(note);

    designer.addDraggedNode(event, node);
});

In the example, a new node is created with text "Node Text !!!!" and a note and a link associated to it when the user drop the node. Something to pay attention is the node.setMetadata("{}"), this attributes will be persisted during the serialization. Here you can store all the data you need.

2. Support for dragging Images: Similar to the point 1,drag support is registered to the div dragImageNode.

        $("dragImageNode").addEvent('mousedown', function(event) {
            event.preventDefault();
   
            // Create a image node ...
            var mindmap = designer.getMindmap();
            var node = mindmap.createNode();
            node.setImageSize(80, 43);
            node.setMetadata("{'media':'video,'url':'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3FrXftyuzw&feature=g-vrec&context=G2b4ab69RVAAAAAAAAAA'}");
            node.setImageUrl("images/logo-small.png");
            node.setShapeType(mindplot.model.TopicShape.IMAGE);
   
            designer.addDraggedNode(event, node);
        });
   

The node.setShapeType(mindplot.model.TopicShape.IMAGE) defines a image node. This makes mandatory the set of setImageUrl and setImageSize properties in the node.

3. An event registration mechanism for Image nodes edit events: The next snipped show how to register a custom edition handler.

        designer.addEvent("editnode", function(event) {
            var node = event.model;
   
            alert("Node Id:" + node.getId());
            alert("Node Metadata:" + node.getMetadata());
            alert("Is Read Only:" + event.readOnly);
   } });
   

Author

• Pablo Luna
• Paulo Veiga
• Ignacio Manzano
• Nicolas Damonte

License

The source code is Licensed under the WiseMapping Open License, Version 1.0 (the “License”);

You may obtain a copy of the License at: http://www.wisemapping.org/license