I am looking for an open source GUI based application that can draw either FSM or Automata. Anyone knows of anything?
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I have looked into this many times over the years. My conclusion was you cant have open source + GUI and have it be functional.
The oss gui tools are usuall sub-par in some manner or another, generally they are out-of-date and unsupported.
There are many "build from a text file description" FSM generators out there. How badly do you really need the GUI.
If you meant only draw there are plenty, basically any OSS UML modeling tool should support drawing an FSM.
There are some commerial offerings that are good: Matlab, StateWorks.
For many years, the eclipse modeling framework - http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/gmf/ has looked promising - but i have never gotten anywhere with it
sylvanaar
2010-03-01 06:56:19