| Feature |
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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| 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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| 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 Box and Table 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 Stdandard or FlowChartX Professional demo version. MindFusion provides 6 months free technical support and upgrades with every license bought.