FlowChartX control 4.2.1

FlowChartX control 4.2.1 offers you a professional and general-purpose software component which can be used to display various types of diagrams and charts, in many different formats. It Implemented as an ActiveX control, FlowChartX provides your applications with the ability to create and present various kinds of flow diagrams. A few to mention are workflow, flowchart, process, database entity relationship diagrams, organizational, hierarchy and network charts, graphs and trees.
The basic item types, boxes, tables and arrows, can be grouped or attached one to another to form complex structures. The control provides more than 80 stock box shapes, and it is possible to define new ones programmatically. Even further customization can be done via custom painting of boxes. Diagram nodes - boxes and tables - can display both images and formatted text. Customizable fonts and colors and multiple arrow styles let you get the right appearance of your charts.
MindFusion provides free technical support for both registered clients and evaluators. Besides, with their initial purchase customers are entitled to 6 month upgrade subscription.
FlowChartX is royalty free for client and server side use.

Major Features:

1. Redistribution is royalty free   
2. Is digitally signed
3. A native 64-bit version available
4. Is written in C++ using ATL and WTL
5. Can be purchased with source code
6. User Interaction:   
   • Several user interaction modes
   • Scrolling and zooming
   • Automatic scrolling while dragging objects with the mouse
   • Additional Overview control
   • Alignment to grid
   • Multiple selection
   • Tool-tips
   • Docking points can be defined for nodes
   • Multilevel Undo/Redo support
   • Clipboard support - Copy/Paste/Cut operations
   • Scroll tables rows
   • OLE Drag & Drop support
7. Programming:
   • Programmatic access to the diagram objects and selections
   • Numerous properties for customizing appearance and behavior
   • Numerous utility methods
   • Rich event set
   • Store and retrieve diagrams into/from:
   • Files on disk
   • OLE streams
   • ASCII strings
   • XML documents
8. Output:
   • To screen using the Windows GDI or GDI+
   • Printing and print preview
   • Integrate diagrams into VSVIEW reports
   • Create metafile or bitmap images
9. Import and Export:
   • Export images in bmp, jpeg, gif, tiff, png formats
   • Export metafiles
   • Import Visio 2003 VDX files
   • Export Visio 2003 VDX files
10. Diagram Elements:
    • Host ActiveX controls in diagram nodes
    • Container nodes that can hold other nodes
    • Plugins for shape libraries
    • More than 87 predefined node shapes
    • Tables with unlimited number of rows and columns
    • Arrows can comprise multiple segments
    • Arrow segments can be straight lines or curves
    • Interactive arrow segments addition and removal
    • Anchor points of an object where its incoming arrows would be placed
11. Behavior:
    • Tables can be scrolled
    • In place Box and Table text editing
    • Ability to set active object handles
    • Locking of chart objects
    • Objects grouping
    • Collapse/Expand of tree nodes in hierarchical structures like trees etc.
    • Path finding between objects
    • Ability to set selection handles behaviour
    • Read-only mode
    • Dynamic positioning of arrows relative to linked nodes
12. Automatic Layout:
    • Layered graph layout
    • Spring-Embedder graph layout
    • Radial layout
    • Directional tree layout
    • Route arrows to avoid crossing nodes
    • Circular graph layout
13. Appearance:
    • Different styles of the alignment grid
    • Different text alignment styles
    • Dynamic positioning of arrows relative to the attached boxes
    • Background image with plenty of alignment options - to an object's corner, tiled, stretched
    • Z-order
    • Nodes can display images and text
    • Customizable fonts and colors for every chart object
    • Different arrow styles
    • Rich choice of pen styles
    • Shadow offset of objects
    • User-designed box shapes
    • User-assigned mouse cursors
    • Custom-painted boxes
    • Shadow effect
    • Different styles for visual indication of a selected object
14. Diagram Structure:
    • Link nodes to nodes
    • Link tables rows to table rows
    • Link table rows to nodes
    • Link nodes to tables
    • Unconnected arrows
15. Hierarchical grouping:
    • Attaching objects (nodes/tables) to other objects
    • Attaching objects to arrow control points
    • Attaching objects to arrow segments