language to create flowcharts

Question

Hi,

This seems like something which must have been answered before, but I can't find anything appropriate in the question archives. Basically, I'm looking for a little Domain Specific Language to create flowcharts. I'm terrible at graphic design and making things look nice, and I'd really like a langauge where I could write something in code and it would produce a pretty flowchart. I've come across GraphViz, but it seems more suited to creating things like Finite State Machine diagrams, rather than process flowcharts. It also doesn't have the simple DSL-style front-end that would allow me to easily work it.

Any ideas? I'm sure this must have been done before...

Robin

Answer 1

Would something like Fusion Charts be of any use?

Answer 2

MindFusion offers components for diagramming that you can access programmatically.

They offer components for WPF and WinForms:

• WPFDiagram - WPF
• FlowChart.NET - WinForms

In the past I've used their WPF component on a DSL editor project. Based on Toolbox drag-and-drops in the DSL editor, WPFDiagram was called to create shapes on the Drawing Surface.