Free (as in beer) Windows Flowcharting?

Posted by Cliff on Friday October 10, 2003 @04:20PM from the diagrams-of-geometric-shapes dept.

bhtooefr asks: "I need a flowcharting program for use in one of my programming classes at Central Ohio Technical College, and I can't afford to spend much money. The instructor recommended that I use Microsoft Visio, but it's way past my budget (and I can't obtain it for free). I've tried a free trial app (SmartDraw), but I didn't like the UI at all. Kivio won't do the job, because the free version is only for KDE, and Kivio MP isn't free. However, if there's a Kivio port to Windows that is free, I'd be rather interested. Any ideas here?"

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Re:Try Dia by AndyElf · 2003-10-11 00:46 · Score: 3, Interesting

With all due respect to Dia -- it is hardly Visio replacement. Afew PVs:

* Having to go through 3-5 clicks just to change a width or color of a line -- gimme a break.

* Can't apply changes to group of objects.

* Annoying menu structure -- it is even worse than that of The Gimp.

* On Windows -- it's just too quirky and to slow (which largely GTK+ problem, admitted by the porters, hopefully will get better, eventually...)

One can use Dia if one has to -- but it really is *not* a drop-in Visio replacement.

Speaking of which -- with each new release it (Visio) gets worse...

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