FlowChart.Net

MindFusion FlowChart.NET Professional Main Features

FlowChart.NETis designed in such way that you can create with it even the most complex schemes. In order to do so you combine different FlowChart.NET objects and set their properties. You can respond to the users' interaction with the flowchart objects with the events the control provides.

Below you can see a list of the most important FlowChart.NET characteristics separated in groups:

MindFusion FlowChart.NET Component

• Redistribution is royalty free
• Assembly is strong-named
• Is digitally signed
• Can be purchased with source code
• Is written in C#

MindFusion FlowChart.NET Professional User interaction

• Several user interaction modes
• Scrolling and zooming
• Panning
• Copy and paste to/from Windows clipboard
• Automatic scrolling while dragging objects with the mouse
• Alignment to grid
• Multiple selection
• Tool-tip
• Docking points can be defined for nodes
• Undo / redo support

MindFusion FlowChart.NET Professional Programming

• Programmatic access to the diagram objects and selections
• Numerous properties for customizing appearance and behavior
• Numerous utility methods
• Path finding and cycle detection
• Rich event set

MindFusion FlowChart.NET Professional Store and retrieve diagrams into/from

• Files on disk
• .NET streams
• ASCII strings
• XML documents

MindFusion FlowChart.NET Professional Output

• To display via Windows Forms
• Printing
• Print preview
• To browser via the utility WebChart class
• Export image files

MindFusion FlowChart.NET Professional Diagram elements

• More than 70 predefined node shapes
• Tables with unlimited number of rows and columns
• Control hosts allow using .NET controls as diagram nodes
• Arrows can comprise multiple segments
• Arrow segments can be straight lines or curves

MindFusion FlowChart.NET Professional Automatic layout

• Spring-Embedder graph layout
• Directional tree layout
• Radial tree layout
• Layered graph layout
• Grid layout ( FlowChart.NET Pro only)
• Automatic arrow routing

MindFusion FlowChart.NET Professional Appearance

• Nodes can display images and text
• Various text alignment styles
• Text can be laid-out in polygonal areas
• Styled HTML-like text formatting
• Customizable fonts and colors
• Ability to define custom node shapes
• Custom painting of nodes
• Shadows
• User-assigned mouse cursors
• Z order
• Rich choice of pen and brush styles
• Transparent nodes
• Invisible nodes

MindFusion FlowChart.NET Professional Behavior

• Lock diagram elements
• Read-only mode supported
• Tables can be scrolled
• Expand / collapse object hierarchies
• In-place text editing
• Dynamic positioning of arrows relative to linked nodes

MindFusion FlowChart.NET Professional Linking via arrows

• Nodes to nodes
• Tables to tables
• Nodes to tables
• Unconnected arrows

MindFusion FlowChart.NET Professional Hierarchical grouping

• Attaching objects (nodes/tables) to other objects
• Attaching objects to arrow control points
• Attaching objects to arrow segments

Auxiliary controls (FlowChart.NET Pro only)

• Overview control
• Ruler control
• Shapes toolbar