#83 TouchGraph display mode

[HelgeM on the mailing list]

The open-source free Java-library TouchGraph could
offer a very cool alternative browsing mode for
FreeMind-mindmaps.

You can test the non-editing web applet version here:
http://www.touchgraph.com/newLB/TGLinkBrowser.html

They say in the TouchGraph forums that the TouchGraph
library is easy to use. The best place to see how it is
used is the source code for the TGLinkBrowser. The
source code can be found here:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/touchgraph/TGLB_SRC_120.zip
To try it start "TGLinkBrowser.bat" and you will can do
editing. New nodes are made by draggging from the
selected node.

This snippet from the TouchGraph forum sounds like it
should be not to difficult:
> has anyone worked with importing data, particuarly
data from SAS into a touchgraph browser. and if so how
did you go about quearying it?
>> TouchGraph has a nice XML interface. Write a script
to export the SAS data to an XML file, and voila! Open
this XML file in TouchGraph.
(From:
http://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=2057541\)

TouchGraphs project page is here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/touchgraph/

More info can be found in the following thread in the
FreeMind forum:
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1029969&forum_id=22101

[Daniel Polansky]

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I am sceptical. If there's something advantageous about
FreeMind, then it is its current presentation of the data. If
you prefer displaying the data in TouchGraph, there may be a
possibility to convert FreeMind's XML to something
TouchGraph can understand.