Prechelt@Sansibar.ira.uka.de (Lutz Prechelt) (10/23/90)
I'm looking for an interactive graph drawing program, 1. There is a collection of shapes to chose from, e.g. boxes, diamonds, triangles, ellipses, hexagons and so on. Nice, if this collection is customizable. 2. These shapes are modifyable, i.e. having thick/thin/dotted/dashed lines, Shades, etc. 3. Text is automatically centered within such objects. Ability to handle multiline text or automatically wrap or resize text to fit the space restrictions would be fine. 4. Such objects can be connected via lines. Text may be given for a line and is cleverly adjusted. 5. Whenever I move an object, all the lines connected to it, move accordingly. They are fixed to a certain point of the object, that may lie within it, in which case the line may be partially hidden. 6. The program generates postscript output (or fig or pic or pbm or ...) The purpose of the program is to draw schematic diagrams, e.g. Entity-Relationship graphs, so it is clear that the most important of these properties are the text centering (3) and the rubberbanding for moves (5). The only thing I know, that has both of them, is the "picture" editor from the IDEtool software, running under suntools. It has parts of the properties 1, 3, 4, 5. Do you know any such software for X11? How and where can we get it? We are currently using Sun3, Sun4, Dec 3100 under X11R4. Thanks in advance.