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Nobody/Anonymous
2006-04-30
2013-04-11

  • Nobody/Anonymous

    Nobody/Anonymous - 2006-04-30

    I run Freemind on Mac OX 10.3.9

    I want to edit the patterns in patterns.xml. Anyone know how I can open and edit?

    Thanks

    David W

     

    • Ken Robertson

      Ken Robertson - 2006-04-30

      G'day David W,

      It's a plain text file so you should be able to open it with your favourite text editor.  (Don't know if Macs are funny about that tho'?)

      --
      Regards
      Ken

       

    • steve

      steve - 2006-04-30

      What is the format of such a file. On my mac, there is no such file that I can find

       

    • Nobody/Anonymous

      Nobody/Anonymous - 2006-05-01

      Thanks... but like Steve I can't find any such file. If I could I could then use textedit.

       

    • Steve Jakob

      Steve Jakob - 2006-05-28

      The file is embedded within the application JAR file:

      FreeMind.app/Contents/Resources/Java/lib/freemind.jar

      Editing the file would require it be extracted using the "jar" utility in the JDK, and then replacing the original in the JAR.

       

      • Maurício Habert

        Maurício Habert - 2006-09-12

        Hi, Steve, could you give me (us) more details? Which utiliity exactly are you mentioning? (I'm searching at http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/tooldocs/index.html but no "extract" here.

          Actually, I'm so lame that I even can't get in the FreeMind dir/app (keep getting "FreeMind.app: No such file or directory")

          While we're at this, why the developers didn't mention this detail for Mac users?

          Thanks,

                M

         

  • spinifex

    spinifex - 2010-09-08

    Here how to do it in Mac 0.9.0 RC7

    IN FINDER
    Duplicate Freemind as Freemind Copy (for safety)
    With Freemind Copy: Open Package Contents via Rt-Click Menu
    Find freemind.jar in above (use spotlight or its in /Applications/FreeMind.app/Contents/Resources/Java/lib/
    Copy freemind.jar to Desktop
    Unarchive freemind.jar (becomes "Freemind" folder on desktop) (I use The Unarchiver app)
    Edit the files you want to edit (edit xml with html editor; .properties files with Textedit etc)
    Find (in Folder META-INF) and Copy MANIFEST.MF to root of "Freemind" folder from above
    Delete folder META-INF

    Recompiling the freemind.jar file:

    Open Terminal and type following:
    cd Desktop
    cd freemind
    jar -cvmf MANIFEST.MF freemind.jar *

    IN FINDER (replacing freemind.jar)
    From Desktop: copy new freemind.jar back to where you originally got it: ie "Freemind Copy" in Applications
    Check the program works.

     

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