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Summary

FlowChartX Standard by MindFusion Group

Add work flow diagrams to your applications. FlowChartX helps you create and present work flow, algorithm, and process diagrams, database entity-relationship diagrams, object hierarchy and relationship charts, graphs and trees. Its' basic types of objects - boxes, tables and arrows can be grouped and attached one to another, and combined in complex structures. The control provides more than 70 predefined box shapes, as well as user designated and custom-painted boxes.

Overview

FlowChartX provides more than 70 predefined box shapes, as well as user designated and custom-painted boxes. Both images and text can be placed inside boxes. Customizable fonts and colors and multiple arrow styles let you customize the appearance of a chart. Other layout features include an alignment grid; shadow effects; scrolling and zooming; locking; z-order; and pen styles.

The control's programming model comprises more than 200 methods, properties and events. The objects in a FlowChartX diagram can be enumerated through several collections - based on the object type and selection state. The diagrams relationship hierarchy can be traversed through 'incoming/outgoing arrows' collections available for the boxes and tables.

Every object type available in FlowChartX is exposed as a COM class with properties and methods controlling its look and behavior. Through these classes the FCX objects can be programmatically moved and resized, locked in place, repositioned in the Z-order, grouped and attached; their text, color, font, style and other visual attributes are exposed as properties.

A brief description of the basic FlowChartX types follows below:

Boxes can represent classes in class-hierarchies, flowchart elements, icons in network diagrams, etc. They can hold both graphics and text in different fonts, sizes and colors. Box objects can have any polygonal shape. There are more than 50 predefined box shapes. Apart from them FlowChartX offers you very easy and quick way to define your own shape as you like it. Furthermore boxes support two forms of custom painting. The first type gives you full control over the painting, while in the second one your painting code is performed additionally to the basic painting.

Tables can be used in database diagrams as well as in any other kind of charts that need table representation. They display grids of cells and every cell contains text. Cells, columns and rows can be customized in various ways there are properties available for setting their extents, style and text alignment. Tables dimensions can be programmatically changed; inserting, appending or deleting rows and columns can be done in a very comprehensive, intuitive way whenever you might need it. Tables can also display background images and graphics. The file formats supported are BMP, GIF, JPEG, ICO and WMF (same applies for boxes).

Arrows are used to represent various types of connections and relations in diagrams. FlowChartX offers three basic arrow-types:

poly-line arrows composed of straight-line segments

curved arrows composed of Bezier-spline segments

arrows composed of horizontal and vertical segments, alternating their orientation so that every segment is perpendicular to its neighbor

Each arrow has to be connected to a box or a table object. You can use transparent boxes on any side of an arrow to make it appear as hanging. Some customizable arrows properties are: tip styles, colors, text, pen width and style, modification behavior and number of segments.

FlowChartX is written in C++ using the ATL libraries to implement the needed ActiveX control interfaces. The source code is included in the site-wide version, and also is optionally available with the single-developer version.

What’s New in FlowChartX V4.3?

MultipleGraphsPlacement specifies how layout algorithms place independent subgraphs relatively to each other

SplitGraph specifies whether unconnected subgraphs are laid out independently from each other

DecorationLine objects

custom layout of container boxes possible

AutoResizeContainer specifies whether containers should resize to fit their children

containers can be resized to fit child nodes using the ResizeToFitChildren method

items border color can be made semi-transparent by setting FrameColorAlpha

text antialising can be enabled for individual boxes by setting their TextAntiAliasing property

arrows and tables can be custom-drawn

tooltips auto-pop time can be set through the ToolTipAutoPop property

the DocBoundsChanged event is raised when the flowchart document area is resized

HtmlBuilder now exports items in reverse Z order to fix hit-testing of overlapping areas

What’s New in FlowChartX V4.2.1?

Circular graph layout algorithm

The LayoutProgress event lets you track the progress of layout algorithms

LayeredLayout can arrange nodes of varying size without overlapping

The ChangeRelation method lets you change the origin or destination row of an arrow

The tsBelow text style can be used with tables

EnableShadows and EnableSelHandles properties added to ImageExportOptions

Flowchart items can be cloned using their Clone method

What’s New in FlowChartX V4.X?

Native 64-bit support

Improved binary serialization

XML serialization based on MSXML6

Table cell tooltips

PrintOptions.HeaderTextStyle lets you set the header text alignment

Custom label position for Arrow objects

Speed of the GridLayout has been greatly improved

Boxes whose Style is set to bsShape can be rotated

Spanning table cells

Add work flow diagrams to your applications.

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PurchaseOptions: FlowChartX Standard Edition V4.3 1 Developer License (12 Months Subscription Included), FlowChartX Standard Edition V4.3 4 Developer Team License (12 Months Subscription Included), FlowChartX Standard Edition V4.3 8 Developer Team License (12 Months Subscription Included), FlowChartX Standard Edition V4.3 1 Site Wide License (Allows Unlimited Developers at a Single Physical Address) (12 Months Subscription Included), FlowChartX Standard Edition V4.3 1 Enterprise Subscription License (Unlimited number of developers of an enterprise at all its physical addresses) - (12 Months Subscription Included), FlowChartX Standard Edition V4.3 - with Source Code 1 Developer License - with Source Code (12 Months Subscription Included), FlowChartX Standard Edition V4.3 - with Source Code 4 Developer Team License - with Source Code (12 Months Subscription Included), FlowChartX Standard Edition V4.3 - with Source Code 8 Developer Team License - with Source Code (12 Months Subscription Included), FlowChartX Standard Edition V4.3 - with Source Code 1 Site Wide License (Allows Unlimited Developers at a Single Physical Address) - with Source Code (12 Months Subscription Included), FlowChartX Standard Edition V4.3 - with Source Code 1 Enterprise Subscription License (Unlimited number of developers of an enterprise at all its physical addresses) - with Source Code (12 Months Subscription Included), FlowChartX Standard Edition - Upgrade / Subscription Renewal 1 Upgrade / Subscription Renewal (12 months subscription, for all license types)

Resources: Read the FlowChartX help file, Browse the differences between FlowChartX editions Web pages, Browse the FlowChartX ActiveX License Agreement Web pages, Download the FlowChartX Professional V4.3 evaluation on to your computer - Displays Nag Screens

Operating System for Deployment: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 95

Architecture of Product: 32Bit

Product Type: Component

Component Type: ActiveX OCX, ActiveX DLL, DLL

Compatible Containers: Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003, Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0, Microsoft Visual Basic .NET 2003, Microsoft Visual Basic .NET, Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, Microsoft Visual C++ .NET 2003, Microsoft Visual C++ .NET, Microsoft Visual C# .NET 2003, Microsoft Visual C# .NET, Microsoft Visual J++ 6.0, Microsoft Visual FoxPro 6.0, Microsoft Outlook 2002, Microsoft Outlook 2000, Microsoft FrontPage, Delphi 8.0, C#Builder, .NET Framework 1.1, .NET Framework 1.0

Product Class: Business Components

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