Here are some useful add-in related Graph Drawing Tools links I've started collecting. This section is still very much under construction, and more links will be appearing in the future. If any Graph Drawing Tools link dies, please contact me.

VC++ Example Capture Print Screen to Clipboard including dropdown menu, SetWindowsHookEx and UnhookWindowsHookEx, with RegisterWindowMessage

Get Business Card / Label Print Component C++ Source Codes

Add proto - logic diagram displays to your Java, C++, and .NET applications, for the desktop and rich internet applications.

MFC Sample: Add status bar to an MFC dialog, CStatusBar

VC++ Example: splitter control in dialog UpdateWindow GetWindowRect GetDlgItem

MFC Source Code: WindowFromPoint and GetDlgItem or ScreenToClient

MFC GDI+ Sample: gdiplus.lib with GdiplusStartupInput and GdiplusStartup with GdiplusShutdown

Screen Capture , to Clipboard, C++ Source Code, Get bitmap of Window

Free VC++ MFC Grid Control with VC++ Source Code

HMI-SCADA Visualization Solutions for C/C++, Java, C# and VB

VC++ Code: Drag and Drop File in Dialog with WM_DROPFILES and WM_NCLBUTTONDOWN

MFC Library Article: Create Database with SQL Server and ADO Stored Procedures

High-speed Charting Control, Real Time Chart, Data Visualization, C# Source Code

Visual C++ Example: Load DIB Bitmap File and Save Bitmap file and Convert dib to bitmap and rotate bitmap file

MFC Example: CreateFile and WriteFile with save memory dc to bitmap file

Real Time Wave Sine Square Triangle Signal Generator with C# Source Code

Visual Studio example and Visual Studio Tutorial and mfc tree control

2D CAD  Draw Application with C# Source Code

WinCE MFC TCP SOCKET AND UDP SOCKET Sample Codes

VC++ Article: PARSE AND write XML file with Microsoft MSXML 4 of C++ Wrapper

HMI Led Contrl and Meter Control for C#

Printing ActiveX Controls, C++ Source Code

Play MP3 File and MP3 Palyer with Visual C++ Source Codes

RichEdit Control in MFC CRichEditView and MSFTEDIT

OpenGL Line draw, 2D Graphics, and Render Article and Samples Code

OPC, PLC, SCADA Component And Source Code

HMI & SCADA Designer and ProgressBar

VC++ Example: Loading DLLs LoadLibrary and GetProcAddress and FreeLibrary

VC++ Article: Draw Image Background and CScrollView text with bitmap brush and PreCreateWindow

MFC Example: Copy, Move and Delete files and rename directories,  SHFileOperation and CFileFind and FindFirstFile with FindNextFile

Draw or Paint Spline Curve Line with VC++ Source Code

CXImage Library, PNG, Show, Pocket PC with VC++ Sample

CAD 2D Draw - Geometry Library with VC++ Source Codes

Download Visual Assist

C++ Chart Graph Library

Real time software and HMI Software with Trend Chart VC++ Source Code

Open Source HMI / SCADA Software ToolKit, C# / C++ Codes

Read DXF File, Write DXF File, Draw DXF File and autocad with source codes

Spell Checker with VC++ Source Codes and CStringArray with TrimLeft, TrimRight and CompareNoCase CWaitCursor

.NET Article: Draw 2d and 3d text with GDI+, and Draw Shadow text and  Emboss text with Visual C++ Source Codes

Store and read from XML File with .NET and C# framework, C++/MFC Example

call VC++ / C++ and MFC DLL function with VB Program

MFC Extension DLL with AFX_EXT_CLASS

VC++ Article: CTreeCtrl and GetRootItem, GetItemRect and GetNextItem with Printing Tree View and CreateBitmap

MFC MDI and SDI Example to create ruler scrollview and splitter

MFC Example: CoInitializeEx and SHBrowseForFolder  with file folder browser

Add Skin to your Visual C++ MFC application, download source codes

MFC Example: Merge Menu with CreatePopupMenu and GetMenuItemCount GetSubMenu and AppendMenu and InsertMenu

Get file or folder time and set file or folder time, FindFirstFile and FindNextfile with  GetFileAttributes vc++ example

MFC Article: Create toolbar with SetButtons and SetButtonInfo and OnNotify

Free VC++ Port / IO Serial Communication Source Code

UML Case Diagram, UML Sequence Diagram, VC + +/.NET visualization component library source code

GDI+ Example:  Draw Curve ActiveX Control GraphicsPath and Graphics

MFC Library: Drawing Spline application with OpenGL with sample Source Code

Draw, Print and encode UPCA barcode and UPCE barcode, and EAN13 barcode with VC++ Codes

Visual C++ and MFC Appwizard: CMDIChildWnd with CenterWindow AfxGetMainWnd

Direct2D Vector Graphics Rendering with Visual C++, MFC

ADO MFC Visual C++ ODBC OLE DB Codes

VC++ Sample: Multiple Views layout of RepositionBars and DeferWindowPos with RecalcLayout and UpdateAllViews

3D font OpenGL ActiveX Control with Visual C++ Source Code

Windows Debug - Debug Application Crash, Visual C++

VC++ Example: Draw or display Real-time data plot Chart

Factory Pattern in C++

Visual Studio 2013

Visual C++ Article: free image library with image viewer with CxImage and CListCtrl thumbnail images

VC++ Example: Add VBScript and JScript support in VC++ applications with Script ActiveX Control MSSCRIPT.OCX

MFC Example: WM_KICKIDLE and CCmdUI and ON_UPDATE_COMMAND_UI and WM_IDLEUPDATECMDUI

AutoCAD File Format, Read and Write drawing with Visual C++ Source Code

Serial Port Communication, Read data from port Visual C++ Samples

OpenGL 3D Graph ActiveX Control

MFC Example: Docking CSizingControlBar Windows inside ActiveX Control with CFrameWnd and SetTimer

Drawing Graphics with DirectDraw, Double Buffer Drawing with MFC

DXF File, Read and Draw, Import and View .NET and C++ Source Code

Call JavaScript from Visual C++ and MFC, Article and Example

MS Chart Control with VC++

C++ Barcode source codes with draw Code39 Code93 AND Code128A  Code128B with Code128C

MFC Sample Code: TrackMouseEvent and GetCapture or SetCapture and ReleaseCapture and GetCursorPos

MFC Sample: Display or Create Splash Screen, Show Transparent Bitmap with SetWindowRgn

UML Diagram Component / Drawing C++ Source Code Solution from UCanCode, it will save you 50% - 80% time for building any UML based application.

XD++ MFC Library provide your windows appliation with advanced diagramming and flowcharting abilities.

XD++ Pro a graphical component that allows developers to quickly build any kind of graphical applicatons.

E-XD++ Pro Enrich your application with flowchart / workflow / organizational diagramming.

E-XD++ Enterprise a VC++ / .NET Framework  for developing microsoft visio like interactive 2d graphics and diagramming applications.

First time here? Product Tour E-XD++ Graph / Drawing Component product walkthrough Screenshots Applications built on E-XD++ Graph / Drawing Component Product feature comparison Powerful, flexible, and easy to use Diagram Components. Powerful and flexible enough to create diagrams exactly the way you want them to appear. So easy to use that you will be able to prototype your application in just a few minutes. Feature rich. With features such as automatic layout, multiple layers, collapsible sub-graphs, snap-to connection points, XML, SVG, and more, E-XD++ Have the power and flexibility you need to create sophisticated diagrams, quickly and easily. Events such as click, double-click, hover, select, rubber-band select, copy, delete, resize and move are supported. Operations such as drag-and-drop, unlimited undo/redo, and clipboard operations are common and complex, and are expected by today's sophisticated users. it full supports importing ArcGis, SVG and DXF File format. Performance and Scalability. UCanCode E-XD++ Capable of handling many thousands of nodes and edges, up to hundreds of thousands depending upon the complexity of the nodes you wish to draw and the operations you wish to allow. Our graphical classes are extremely lightweight objects enabling outstanding performance. Save Time and Money and gain Reliability. A diagram is worth 1,000 words, and E-XD++ is shipped with more than 500,000 lines of well designed and well tested code! It is used by hundreds of the world's most quality conscious companies. It will saves you thousands of hours of complex coding and years of maintenance.

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Literatur

• A good starting point for reasearch on graph drawing is the article G. Di Battista, P. Eades, R. Tamassia, I.G. Tollis: Algorithms for Drawing Graphs: an Annotated Bibliography available as PostScript file (~ 116 KB) from ftp.cs.brown.edu (USA). This article was also published in Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications, no. 4, pp. 235-282, 1994.
• The conferences on graph drawing give an overview of the state of the art in graph drawing. The recent conference GD'99 was in Prague, Czechoslovakia. See R. Tamassia's graph drawing page for references about past conferences on graph drawing.

Applications

• Voyeur is a tool for the visualization of circuit information. It has many features to explore circuits to detect faults. It is able to use the VCG tool as auxiliary tool to generate routing information. See the Voyeur home page for more information.
• Oz is a concurrent constraint programming language designed for applications that require complex symbolic computations, organization into multiple agents, and soft real-time control. The DFKI Oz System allows graphical debugging of Oz terms. It is able to use the VCG tool as auxiliary tool to visualize Oz terms. See the Oz visualization page for more information.
• The Call Graph Drawing Interface is a set of small tools to visualize dynamic call graphs of C/C++ programs. It uses gprof to detect the function call structure of a test run, and uses the VCG tool to visualize this structure. It is great for debugging and documentation purposes. See the Call Graph Drawing Interface page for more information.

Graph Drawing Tools

• daVinci is a graph layout tool written in the functional language ASpecT, with a C interface. It is similar to the VCG tool but has more features to communicate with controlling programs acting as a user interface for these programs. See the daVinci home page for more information.
• GraphEd is a graph editor with a large number of algorithms concerning graphs, including automatical layout, many forms of partitionings, planarity tests etc. Libraries are also available. See the GraphEd home page for more information.
• GraphLet is the successor of GraphEd , implemented in C++ with Leda and Tcl/Tk. It provides GraphScript, a scripting language to support user interface and animation tailoring of the graph editor. Is is also the first tool that uses GML for input and output. GML is an upcoming standard for graph specifications. See the GraphLet home page for more information.
• ffGraph is a C++ graph layout library with X11 interface using Tkl/Tk. It provides automatical layout in layers and 3D spring embedding layout. The distribution includes a graph editor as example how to use the library. Unfortunately, this library is not on a ftp server but freely available on request. See the ffGraph home page for more information.
• The Edge tool was used in our project before the VCG tool was implemented. The specifications of the Edge tool and the VCG tool are nearly compatible. The Edge tool is written in C++. It is available at ftp.ira.uka.de (129.13.10.90) in the directory /pub/graphic. I don't know whether the Edge tool is still maintained, thus I don't know a contact person.
• GraphPlace is a simple and fast filter program that takes a list of nodes and edges and produces a list of coordinates of the nodes and edges, or, optionally, a PostScript picture. It is written in ANSI C with a PostScript part. It is available at ftp.dcs.warwick.ac.uk in the directory /people/Martyn.Amos. Contact J.T.J.v.Eijndhoven@ele.tue.nl for more information about GraphPlace .
• XGrab is a graph editor for directed graphs with PostScript output capabilities. The layout algorithm is similar to the standard algorithm of the VCG tool but is not very fast and has not so much parameters to control the layout algorithm. On the other hand, the layout can be improved manually very well. The tool is written in C++ and requires the Interviews package. It is available at cs.washington.edu in the directory /pub. Contact greg@cs.washington.edu for more information about XGrab .
• D-ABDUCTOR has new compound graph layout methods, including inclusion trees. It has been implemented including binaries of the toolkit XView and is delivered as a SPARC binary for Sun workstations (SunOS 4.1.x). It is available at SunSITE.sut.ac.jp (133.31.30.7), the file /pub/asia-info/japanese-src/packages/abd2.23.tar.gz. Contact misue@iias.flab.fujitsu.co.jp for more information about D-ABDUCTOR .
• VGJ is a graph layout tool written in Java. It includes tree layout, spring embedder layout and a new technique for hierarchical directed graphs by clan-based decomposition. The idea is to recognize intrinsic subgraphs (clans) by producing a parse tree of the graph, i.e. a nested relationship among the parts of the graph. The tool supports 3D and file input/output in GML, an upcoming graph specification standard. The tool is on line available; see the VGJ home page. Contact mccreary@Eng.Auburn.EDU for more information about VGJ .
• The Lens system can be used for animation and debugging of data structures. The GROOVE system is specialized for the visualization of object oriented C++ programs. Both system and various other visualization tools are developed at the GVU Center at the Georgia Institute of Technology. See the GVU home page for more information.
• Swan is a library for the visualization of C/C++ programs. A program is annotated by library calls that control the visualization sequence. Collections of data structure graphs are displayed in a simple but very functional viewer. Swan allows manual layout and provides several automatic layout algorithms including hierarchical layout, spring embedders, circular layout and special methods for trees, linear lists and arrays. Swan is useful for relatively small graphs, it requires colors and produces nice pictures in a high quality of data structure teaching textbooks. Swan is available for DecStation, demos are available for Solaris. See the Swan home page.
• The Interactive Graph Display System DG is a tool and a library of layout routines used for the display of control flow graphs, data flow graphs, expression trees, dominator trees, and more. This tool is under development. See the DG home page for more information. An application is the Data Flow Equation Display DFlow . See the Dflo home page.
• GEM3D is a tool for 3D spring embedding layout, a variant of force directed placement for undirected graphs. Here, all edges are straight and of nearly even size. GEM3D is very fast, but it is currently more a testbed for force directed placement rather than a tool for real world applications. See Arne Fricks home page for more information.
• DDD is a Data Display Debugger, a graphical frontend for GDB and DBX debuggers. It provides a graphical data display with automatic layout facilities. See the DDD home page for more information.
• ILOG offers commercial visualisation components for high performance graphics that include graph layout facilities. The ILOG Views component suite offers C++ components for Unix and MS-Windows. The ILOG JViews component suite is the Java counterpart. The graph layout capabilities among others include spring embedders, various tree layouts, orthogonal layouts and Sugiyama-style layout (hierarchical layout similar to VCG). Contact info@ilog.com for more information or visit the ILOG JViews home page. A demo applet showing some of the graph layout facilities of JViews is available here.
• The DOT tool is commercial available from AT&T. However, there is a free mail server drawdag@toucan.research.att.com where you can send a specification of your graph, and get back a PostScript or HPGL description of the graph layout. The speciality of DOT is the very good spline routine to draw smooth edges. See the Dot information page for more information.
• Other commercial graph drawing systems are available from Tom Sawyer Software, Berkely, California. There are systems and libraries for Unix and MS-Windows, mostly written in C++. Contact info@tomsawyer.com for more information or visit the Tom Sawyer Software home page.

Libraries

• E-XD++ Draw/Graph Tool  Library Professional Edition is a MFC/Graph Tool for developing Microsoft Visio like interactive 2D graphics and diagramming applications. E-XD++ Drawing/Graph Tool  stores graphical objects in a node (scene) graph and renders those objects onto the screen. 

  Visual C++ MFC Library

2 UCanCode Advance E-XD++ HMI & SCADA Source Code Solution for C/C++, .NET V2024 is released!

3 UCanCode Advance E-XD++ GIS SVG Drawing and Printing Solution Source Code Solution for C/C++, .NET V2024 is released!