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ThinkGraph Freeware  - 
for Windows 98, NT, 2000 and XP
  Automatic setup (installs Thinkgraph and Visual Basic 6 runtimes).
This setup uses Inno Setup
size: 6.3 Mb New Version
  In case of problems with the new version, use the previous one   Previous Version
Version 0.3.1 (7th may 05):
  • Fix of the "mini Project Manager" feature
    • Month/Day/Year format was not managed (it was the french format which is Day/Month/Year)
Version 0.3.0 (5th may 05):
  • New Features
    • Mini Project Manager
      Like explained in detail in the next paragraph, the "Filter" feature allows to plan a task. When an idea is declared as a task a small "bargraph" indicates visually:
      • In green color, available time (between today and end date)
      • In orange color, elapsed time (between today and start date)
    • "Person" and "Task" properties on an Idea
      In the property editor (select an idea then right click and select "Properties..."), the first field ("Filter"), allows to filter properties of an idea, with the following choices:
      • All: all the available properties
      • Entity: standard idea properties (title, image, link to a web page, ...)
      • Task: properties allowing to plan a task (start and end date)
      • Person: properties of a contact (firstname and lastname, company, address, phone,email)
      • Personne: propriétés de contact (nom et prénom, adresse, société, téléphone, email) d'une personne
    • Customisation of the automatic idea suffix
      A new option (menu Tools/Options) allows to choose the suffix which is automatically added to ideas (eg 1.1.a). It is possible to choose among:
      • a number (1..N)
      • a letter (A..Z or a..z)
      • a roman number (i..xx or I..XX)
      • days of the week
      • months of the year
      • our 9 planets
      • Seven colors of the rainbow

      There a 3 levels of suffixes
      • Suffix of level 1 ideas (direct child of root)
      • Suffix of level 2 ideas (direct child of level 1 ideas)
      • Suffix of level 3 and more ideas (from level 3)
  • Fixes and modifications
    • Word Export: support of spanish and canada countries
    • New logo "zinziber" in the splash screen and about windows
Version 0.2.65(1st oct 04):
  • Fix on "Zoom Fit" which was erroneous with "free shapes" (rectangle, ellipse, image, text, line)
  • Enhancement of ergonomy for creation of "free text" (behaves like creation of "free image")
  • Fix of Error 457 ("This key already associated with an element of this collection...") when creating "free image"
  • Fix on encoding/decoding of ">" and "<" characters in XML
Version 0.2.64 (5 sept 04):
  • Now possible to link a local document (eg: Word, Excel,...) to a Topic
  • Confirmation required when deleting topics (a quick-and-dirty answer to the lack of Undo)
Version 0.2.60 (30 avril 04):
  • Connectors (like in Powerpoint) now working again ! To connect 2 topics, you must create a line by putting the mouse pointer on the middle of one of the 4 sides of target start topic, then click to create first point and do the same for 2nd point.
  • It is also possible to choose line Style for the connector: select a line connecting 2 topics then right click and "Properties..." in order to select line style among: Direct, Rectilinear, Spline
  • Preselect (topic filled in white) now also on isolated topics (not belonging to a topicmap)
Version 0.2.59 (29th avril 04):
  • New button "Set Image" in graphics attribute toolbar: this allows to set quicker an image for a topic (target topic must be selected first, this also allows to select many topics to set the same image on all these topics)
  • Optimization of "Import Internet Explorer favorites" (File menu)
Version 0.2.58 (10th april 04):
  • Tip of Day
  • Import Internet Explorer Favorites
Version 0.2.5702 (23th march 04):
  • Fix on right mouse click (contextual menu)
  • Word Generation (File/Generate a Word document)
  • Bitmap Drag and Drop: It is now possible to Drag and Drop a JPEG bitmap from another application on an idea of the topicmap
  • Larger width of text field for changing idea's title
  • Import a topicmap from an outlined text (indented with following characters: space, tabulation, +, *, - or >).
    • Import may be done either with Drag and Drop (eg: from Word) or with Copy/Paste (use menu Edit/Paste in Thinkgraph).
    • If an idea is selected, the topicmap will be inserted as a sub branch else it will replace the current topicmap.
  • New version of installtion utility (tgSetup.exe) with new versions of runtime libraries and OCXs, copy in System directory and update of Registry
Version 0.2.5601 (8th march 04):
  • Fixes on Fullscreen mode
Version 0.2.56 (7th march 04):
  • Fullscreen Mode (View/FullScreen menu or F11) for slide shows. To exit the fullscreen mode, use Esc or F11 key
  • Inclusion of an Image Library provided by Jean Luc Deladrière of Pétillant team (images are located in "images" subdirectory of Thinkgraph directory)
  • Image map export no more generates a frame around the image
  • Fix of links to local documents: these links didnt work when the path started with a lower case character (ex: d:\...) une lettre minuscule (ex: d:\...)
  • Fix of generated Javascript which allows to access the note associated to a topic when the document is viewed in a SVG viewer (e.g Internet Explorer + Adobe SVGViewer)
  • Fix of bug when reading float values from the document's file (e.g: zoom value). This error happened when a document saved in a given country (eg: U.S) was read in a country with a different separator for decimal part (e.g "," instead of ".")
Version 0.2.55 (18th feb 04):
  • Support of multiline titles (use SHIFT + Return to insert a newline)
  • Stylesheet
    • Styles are now within a Tree with Treemap layout , this fixes display bugs (when an icon is defined on a style) and will ease the adding of custom styles in the future.
    • File format modification (because of previous point): when opening a file, Thinkgraph detects if this file has the previous format (styles not within a tree) and automatically saves to the new format. Caution previous file format will not be supported from version 0.2.57 and after. You have to open all the files with previous format so that Thinkgraph saves them to the new format.
Version 0.2.54 (24th jan 04):
  • Topicmap
    • Support of bitmap icons in the topicmap. To choose a bitmap for a topic, open properties dialog box (select a topic then click with right mouse button) then use the field "Image File"
    • When a topic has only one child, it is now connected to its parent by an horizontal line
    • Protection against branch duplication now also applies to the copy
    • In Treemap layout: Automatic redraw of the diagram after insertion of a topic
    • Repositionning of the topicmap's topics
      • Also supported in "Vertical Tree" layout
      • If a topic of second level or deeper is moved on the opposite side from its original position, the connector adapts to allow a "star" layout of topics around their parent
  • Ergonomy
    • Style can be changed by a combo list in the "graphic attributes" toolbar (horizontal toolbar at the bottom of Thinkgraph window). This allows to modify in one shot the style of many topics (thanks to multiple selection)
    • Resolution of conflict between 2 interactions with right mouse button:
      • "Display contextual menu" (right mouse click)
      • and
      • "Reorganize a topic" (right mouse click then drag and drop)
      Solution: display of contextual menu is now triggered when right mouse button is released
    • New keyboard shortcut: CTRL A (select all) and "Select All" command in Edit menu
    • New position of "expand/collapse" handle when zoom is lesser than 400% to avoid that it seems separated from the topic
    • No more asks if user wants to save when a link to another document is opened and the current document has not changed
    • Disabling of "automatic zoom fit" when topics are inserted
    • Topic preselection (when a topic is under the mouse cursor):
      • Preselected topic is filled in white
      • Display of topic's title (and link if applicable) in the statusbar (left bottom corner of Thinkgraph window)
    • Esc key cancels the current selection
    • Optimization of bitmap images: bitmaps are stored in a catalog in memory in order to avoid to read the bitmap from file each time it must be displayed
  • It is now possible to define document's author (File/Properties menu)
  • Export As Image map (File/Export As... menu)
    • A comment "Generated by Thinkgraph" is inserted in generated html
    • If document's author is defined (see previous point), it will be inserted in generated html
    • Fix of "image links broken" when html file (and bitmap file) are published on the web: bitmap file referenced by html file is now a relative path (eg: document01.png), before it was an absolute path (ex: c:\thinkgraph\document01.png)
  • Xml Topic Maps data model
    • Syntax fix for attributes stored as occurrences: resourceData tag is now at the right place. This should allow to read Thinkgraph documents (after export as XTM) in XTM applications like Omnigator
  • Fixes
    • Fix of error 375 when properties dialog box is closed with close button (upper right corner)
    • Fix of crash when a item from MRU (Most Recently Used) file list (in File menu) references a file which has been deleted
    • Fix of syntax bug in generated SVG when style="branches" and linestyle="bezier"
Version 0.2.52 (15 dec 03):
  • Support of file association (.SVG files with Thinkgraph)
  • Topicmap
    • Free positionning of a topic
      • It is now possible to choose a topic's position by means of the left mouse button (reordering/reparenting of topics is now performed by means of the right mouse button)
      • Also possible to restore initial topic's position after moving it (File menu then Edit/Reset Topic position). Also works if many topics are selected (multiple selection is performed by means of SHIFT key or by means of a rubber banding trap which is started by a left mouse click then drag mouse without releasing the left mouse button then release)
      • Fix of "jump" when a moved topic is selected
    • Topicmap layout
      • With topicmap layout, 1st level edges now start from the center of root topic
      • When moving a topic from right to left of root (or reverse), children topics are now on the good side
      • Fix of unwanted edge selection when trying to select the root topic
  • Ergonomy and Functionnalities
    • Important ! in order to reorder/reparent topics it is now performed by means of the right mouse button (this is a consequence of using left mouse button to move topics), it is in fact more consistent with WIndows ergonomy because reordering/reparenting uses a drag and drop mechanism.
    • Link to a Thinkgraph document (when "Address" field of topic's properties is a SVG file): recognition of file content to discriminate between "Thinkgraph SVG" (opened in drawing area) and "normal SVG" (opened in embedded Internet explorer/SVG Viewer)
    • Choice of 3 fonts: Arial, Courier, Times New Roman
    • New keyboard shortcut +/- to expand/collapse children topics (when mouse cursor is over a parent topic)
    • New position of expand/collapse handle in order to ease topic moves in "branches" topicmap style and avoid that this handle hides the topic's title when topics are small (large zoom out or many ideas and zoom fit)
    • New position of selection handles in "Lines" topicmap style so that they are now aligned with the topic
  • Fixes
    • Fix of bug which added ".svg" at the end of a filename already ending with ".svg" (eg: documnt01.svg.svg)
    • No more asks if user wants to save when closing or exiting default document without modification
    • If modifications are not saved, a dialog box allows to save when exiting or opening another file
    • Fix of CTRL +/- (zoom +/- keyboard shortcut): now works when used many times in a row
    • Topic duplication created a disconnected topic with a bad side effect (deletion of initial topic and its children when deleting its clone). Now topic duplication displays a dialog box which explains that is is not supported in topicmap
    • Topicmap import (File/Import of a XTM file): now correctly manages XTM trees modelized with instanceOf tag
    • When Exporting As Bitmap / Image Map (File/Expor As...), resize and expand/collapse handles are not displayed
Version 0.2.47 (10 nov 03):
  • Fix of Toolbars Tooltips
  • "Colored Branches" in the topicmap: by enabling the "Same Colors for Children" option, the fill and draw colors are propagated to children entities, this allows to get a branch (and its sub branches) with all the entities sahring the same colors.
  • "Same Colors for Children" option enabled by default on the root
  • First level children are colored with a predefined palette
  • Keyboard Shortcuts:
    • CTRL-O: File->Open...
    • CTRL-S: File->Save
    • CTRL-P: File->Print
  • Scale change for bitmaps: smaller bitmaps so that they are more often at scale 1 or less (shrinking) because before they were too often enlarged (pixellization)
  • Support of transparent bitmaps
  • Better precision for selection of "collapse/expand" button on the top left corner of parent entities
  • Warning when saving a document which already exists
  • Choice of "Level of Detail" in the topicmap: it's a value between 0 and 5, 0 shows only the root, 5 shows all levels (included those beyond 5). There is also +/- buttons in the top horizontal toolbar to show more/less levels.
  • New Zoom scale (1600%) and Zoom buttons (Zoom In Zoom Out) are now around the Zoom combo to be consistent with "Level of Detail" combo and buttons.
  • Fix of crash which occurs sometimes when saving first time
0.2.3 Release (15 sept 03):
  • New tree layout: Treemap.
  • Print now OK in Portrait and Landscape orientations
  • Better display of expand/collapse and note handles
  • Handles are hidden when document is printed.
  • Topic Style is deleted (eg Style="No Style") when the user changes a graphic attribute of a node in the topicmap, this allows easier redefinition of isolated entities.
0.2.2 Release (21 aug 03):
  • Customization of the look of the Topic Map with the horizontal toolbar (under the menu). It is possible to edit: Layout (Vertical, Horizontal, TopicMap), Topicmap Style (Boxes, Lines, Branches), Style of Topicmap lines (Direct, Rectilinear, Spline).