The Grumpy Editor's guide to diagram editors

The Grumpy Editor's guide to diagram editors

Posted May 6, 2004 14:20 UTC (Thu) by mly (guest, #2171)
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's guide to diagram editors

I realize that this is a bit outside the scope of your review, but for those of use who are hopeless at drawing things, and good at writing code, a solution might be to use a tool like AT&T's graphviz.

Then you write a text file, perhaps looking like this...

digraph G {
    main -> parse -> execute;
    main -> init;
    main -> cleanup;
    execute -> make_string;
    execute -> printf
    init -> make_string;
    main -> printf;
    execute -> compare;
}

...run a command on the file, and you'll get a pretty graph in the file type you like. This is really very different from tools like LaTeX, because what you write in your code is only the logical connections between the nodes in your graph, not the layout (although you can influence layout somewhat).

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