With FlowChartX you can rest assured that most complicated diagrams can be drawn in minutes using the enormous variety of drawing features of the component. No problems when it comes to customization and layout either - there are numerous appearance and style options.
Below we have listed the most important FlowChartX features as well those, which are available in the professional edition only. Should you have any comments, do not hesitate to contact us.
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FlowChartX Standard Edition |
FlowChartX Professional Edition |
| The FlowChartX Control |
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| Redistribution is royalty free |
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| Is digitally signed |
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| A native 64-bit version available |
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| Is written in C++ using ATL and WTL |
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| Can be purchased with source code |
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| User Interaction |
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| Several user interaction modes |
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| Scrolling and zooming |
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| Automatic scrolling while dragging objects with the mouse |
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| Additional Overview control |
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| Alignment to grid |
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| Multiple selection |
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| Tool-tips |
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| Docking points can be defined for nodes |
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| Multilevel Undo/Redo support |
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| Clipboard support - Copy/Paste/Cut operations |
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| Scroll tables rows |
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| OLE Drag & Drop support |
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| Programming |
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| Programmatic access to the diagram objects and selections |
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| Numerous properties for customizing appearance and behavior |
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| Numerous utility methods |
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| Rich event set |
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| Store and Retrieve Diagrams into/from |
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| Files on disk |
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| OLE streams |
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| ASCII strings |
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| XML documents |
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| Output |
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| To screen using the Windows GDI or GDI+ |
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| Printing and print preview |
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| Integrate diagrams into VSVIEW reports |
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| Create metafile or bitmap images |
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| Import and Export |
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| Export images in bmp, jpeg, gif, tiff, png formats |
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| Export metafiles |
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| Import Visio 2003 VDX files |
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| Export Visio 2003 VDX files |
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| Diagram Elements |
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| Host ActiveX controls in diagram nodes |
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| Container nodes that can hold other nodes |
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| Plugins for shape libraries |
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| More than 87 predefined node shapes |
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| BPMN (Business Process Management Notation) shapes |
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| Tables with unlimited number of rows and columns |
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| Arrows can comprise multiple segments |
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| Arrow segments can be straight lines or curves |
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| Interactive arrow segments addition and removal |
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| Anchor points of an object where
its incoming arrows would be placed |
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| Behavior |
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| Tables can be scrolled |
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| In-place text editing |
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| Ability to set active object handles |
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| Locking of chart objects |
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| Objects grouping |
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| Collapse/Expand of tree nodes in hierarchical structures like trees etc. |
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| Path finding between objects |
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| Ability to set selection handles behaviour |
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| Read-only mode |
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| Dynamic positioning of arrows relative to linked nodes |
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| Automatic Layout |
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| Layered graph layout |
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| Spring-Embedder graph layout |
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| Radial layout |
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| Directional tree layout |
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| Route arrows to avoid crossing nodes |
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| Appearance |
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| Different styles of the alignment grid |
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| Different text alignment styles |
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| Dynamic positioning of arrows relative to the attached boxes |
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| Background image with plenty of alignment options - to an object's corner, tiled, stretched |
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| Z-order |
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| Nodes can display images and text |
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| Customizable fonts and colors for every chart object |
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| Different arrow styles |
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| Rich choice of pen styles |
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| Shadow offset of objects |
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| User-designed box shapes |
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| User-assigned mouse cursors |
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| Custom-painted boxes |
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| Shadow effect |
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| Different styles for visual indication of a selected object |
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| Diagram Structure |
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| Link nodes to nodes |
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| Link tables rows to table rows |
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| Link table rows to nodes |
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| Link nodes to tables |
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| Unconnected arrows |
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| Hierarchical Grouping |
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| Attaching objects (nodes/tables) to other objects |
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| Attaching objects to arrow control points |
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| Attaching objects to arrow segments |
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You can test the capabilities of the component yourself if you download the free FlowChartX Standard or FlowChartX Professional demo version. MindFusion provides 12 months free technical support and upgrades with every license bought.