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The File Explorer Map Part - Now that's a useful error message

There is no painless way to start this post, so I'll just leap in and thrash about.

This blog has been dark for several months.  Since I have a day job, that's not completely surprising.  Somehow I fell out of the habit of posting, if I ever had it in the first place. 

So imagine my chagrin when I reinstalled MindManager 7, and tried to apply the Modified File Explorer Map Part I blogged about way back in April 2007.   After I updated the File Explorer scripts folder, I tried to use the map part and set the folder depth by choosing the Map Part ->Set Folder Depth command on the right mouse context menu for that map part.

This command generated an error message.  Something about "an error occurred while trying to access the macro, please check if it is valid" or words to that effect.

Great.

Then I went to the download page to get the real scripts in case I had trashed the working copies somewhere along the line.  And immediately remembered that I knew about the bug back in May 2007, but didn't post a fix.  Double great.  Way to go, ya bonehead.

Sure enough, the constant called LOC_DESCRIPTION_TITLE in the macro file FolderDepth.mmbas is supposed to be called LOC_TITLE or something. 

So I updated the download page for the Modified File Explorer Map Part.  Better late than never I suppose, but better not to propagate the error in the first place.

Published Saturday, October 06, 2007 11:47 PM by dethomas
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October 6, 2007 11:53 PM
 

tomhogers said:

Hi dethomas,

After installing Modified File Explorer Map Part and following instructions,  MindManager Pro 6 kept shutting down when I tried to open Map Parts and choose Files and Folders.

However, if I open Map Parts --> MindManager --> FileExplorer first, then I link to Folder and then click on Files and Folders everything is OK.

Cheers,

Tom Hodgers

October 7, 2007 8:25 PM
 

dethomas said:

Tom -

I'm a little confused by your description.  Do you mean MM6 fails (and exits?) if you create a topic, add a folder hyperlink and then open the Map Parts task pane? Further, MM6 succeeds if you first open the task pane, then create a topic, add a hyperlink, and select a FileExplorer map part?

If this is the case, I'm clueless.  Far as I know, the map part scripts don't care if the Map Parts task pane is open or not.  

You may not care, but in MindManager 7 the order of the task pane and topic creation actions doesn't seem to matter.  The modified File Explorer map parts work in either path.  As if that helps you when running MM6.  

If you renamed the original Scripts folder, you could try going back to it and see if the same behavior occurs.  But I'm afraid that's the only useful thing I can think of.

Regards

dethomas

October 8, 2007 7:10 PM
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  • Midwestern white boy, ex-busboy, stock-clerk, grinder, welder and English major, now laboring lo these many years in the fields of awkward stone that characterize software development.
  • 20+ years of software development experience - CPM/Apple/Unix/DOS during the Reagan years, embedded systems before the term was common, Windows development since the first Clinton administration.
  • Mechanical engineering undergrad degree, showing that early success in thermodynamics is not necessarily a good thing. But the Apollo workstations running UNIX were cool.
  • Engineering master's degree with a control systems emphasis, demonstrating that publishing in IEEE Transactions is cool, but not necessarily a good thing.
  • Employed by an industrial electronics company as a principal engineer. Distinguished by several innovation awards, several software patents, and for once having used the word "Byzantine" in a requirements specification.
  • Learned FORTRAN on punch cards, learned Pascal, BASIC and APL to do numerical analysis in several fields of engineering, learned assembly, C, C++ and Java to write software for several embedded systems, custom applications and shrink-wrapped software products.
  • Has considerable exposure to a variety of technologies, including networking, databases, graphics libraries, linear programming, compilers, non-linear control systems, real-time operating systems, fuzzy logic, neural networks, UML, .Net, XML, OPC, WSI, WSDL and WWF. (On that last one, WWF, dethomas is convinced he did time in high school with a guy who went on to success in the Mexican pro wrestling circuit under the name "el Queso Grande.")
  • Wide exposure to Microsoft Windows products and operating system editions as both user and developer, relative indifference to web technology and the dot com boom until the dust settled.
  • Has a cable modem, but no cable TV service. Which is a philosophical statement of sorts. Television is bad for you, the Internet is not. Or at least not yet.

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