xmind2modx - creates site structure in seconds

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wowzow Reply #11, 16 years, 5 months ago

Very nice work, Mac. Looks fabulous.

Just wondering if this is doing loads into Evo or Revo? And, what version of Visual Studio did you code it in? Also what version of mySQL?

Quite genius to use xmind as a sort of impromptu GUI form to hold your placeholder content.

I was thinking of a similar concept a few years back, instead using xslt to transform uml diagrams (generated xmi actually) into website structures. Yours is much simpler, faster, and much more elegant. Kudos. Way to think outside the box, mate.

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charliez Reply #12, 16 years, 5 months ago

How hard would it be to port this to be able to use
Freemind?

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Dimmy Reply #13, 16 years, 5 months ago

would be nice if there would be an option for revolution database, or is it the same database structure?

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rx2 Reply #14, 16 years, 5 months ago

Quote from: charliez at Apr 23, 2010, 11:24 PM

How hard would it be to port this to be able to use
Freemind?

XMind is free and it does import/export Freemind files so you could still build in Freemind and import your mind map to XMind for this purpose. Both are available for Linux, Windows, and Mac though this application looks to be Windows only. We used to use Freemind but we’re XMind converts and we were able to import our Freemind files flawlessly.

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charliez Reply #15, 16 years, 5 months ago

@rx2 thanks...
why did you guys switched to xmind?
what are the pros and cons that you have find between the two apps?

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mac2000 Reply #16, 16 years, 5 months ago

as about other files, databases there is sources - you can easily chang it for ANY cms (if you do not know how - write here in comments i will help you)

also here is some example code:

//this func create sql insert scripts, called with root node of xml and level 0
private void FillSQL(XmlNode xnode, int lev)
        {
            foreach (XmlNode topic in xnode)
            {
                //generate sql string
                sql = sql + "INSERT INTO ................";

                //if there is some children we recursively call this func
                if (topic["children"] != null)
                {                    
                    FillSQL(topic["children"]["topics"], lev + 1);
                }
            }            
        }

ps: is there somebody who know java, i’m thinking about porting this into java (or even into plugin for xmind - so anybody will be able to use it)

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rx2 Reply #17, 16 years, 5 months ago

Quote from: charliez at Apr 24, 2010, 11:00 AM

@rx2 thanks...
why did you guys switched to xmind?
what are the pros and cons that you have find between the two apps?

We switched because most if not all of the team just liked the interface better, the way it works, and the presentation. We didn’t go to far in depth in terms of pros and cons, though it does seem development is a bit more focused and the GANTT charts in the commercial version are appealing.

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mmjaeger Reply #18, 16 years, 5 months ago

Quote from: smashingred at Apr 09, 2010, 07:07 AM

Wow! I’ve been using XMind for about a month now but look at what you’ve done. I thought it’d be good for rapid IA/Site Structures but I didn’t think about using it to semi-automate the process. I’ll try it out.

[Update] I just realized that this is an exe. I dev on a mac.

Doesn’t seem to work on the Mac - too bad