Version 18 of mindweb

Updated 2002-12-16 14:28:09

This software has been pulled because of two really bad reports on data trashing.

Model the web in your mind into software. Link together web research, your personal journal: any kind of information.

It saves all your content in plain text. It auto-saves your content. It automatically detects links as you type them (http urls and intra links with square brackets).

Rohan Pall


The following modifications to the url proc make clickable web links possible in Mac OS X.

 proc url x { 
  set x [regsub -all -nocase {htm} $x {ht%6D}]
  #exec rundll32 url.dll,FileProtocolHandler $x &
  set h [open /tmp/a.script w]
  puts $h "open location \"$x\""
  close $h
  exec osascript /tmp/a.script
  file delete /tmp/a.script
 }

There may be better way to do this, but this'll do for now.

I've also tweaked the render proc to handle mailto and may get it to handle ftps as well. As opaque as I find Tk at the moment I can at least figure that one out.

By the way, much as I like mindweb in it's current incarnation, the fact that I can't do drag'n'drop is one reason why there'll soon be a REALbasic incarnation. Or else, someone's going to give Mac OS X's Wish the functionality I need.

BMA


A really effective way of trashing everything in the ~/data directory with MindWeb under OSX is to give the three-fingered salute aka vulcan nerve pinch aka control-command-powerbutton while MindWeb/Wish are running. I was forced to do that today (a very rare occurance) and all of my MindWeb files were filled with garbage, completely replacing the original content. Bliss ... NOT!

BMA

Fair enough, as this is the second report, I'm pulling the software. Ro