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Are there any good alternatives for Visio/PowerPoint for drawing architectural diagrams. Both Visio and PowerPoint are annoying to use even for some of the simplest tasks. wondering if someone out there has a better suggestion.
Try diagrams.net (previously draw.io). It free and open source, it works natively in any browser and you can save locally or to Google Drive, OneDrive, Github and Gitlab. There's also a Desktop app for Window, macOS and Linux.
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All of the alternatives I tried sucked! I just used PowerPoint, better than Visio!
I use Draw in OpenOffice for Visio alternatives... Seems to work okay.
I recently discovered Google Docs Draw. Good for me.
gliffy.com for example.
I use OmniGraffle for mac, and I enjoy using it. There is also smartdraw for PC. They are both good options for non-professional architectural diagrams. For more professional diagrams, CAD programs tend to have more options.
ARIS Express --> can import Visio 2007 diagrams
LucidChart all the way!
http://www.lucidchart.com
Just try it once. Having used Visio extensively over the years--I can't tell you how satisfying LucidChart is to use.
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i'm thinking about programming a tool that would be useful in windows and mac (as we use those at work) and it's 100% necessary that is inside on a OS window.
The first thing that came to my mind was to use java - as it's cross platform - but, is there any alternative to program cross platform window based programs?
Has anyone tried to use C# windows forms with Mono in other OS's?
I'm interested in a garbage collected language if possible as I don't want to think about possible memory leaks for a tool that can be slower or faster without any trouble.
Also if it's possible to be as easy as it is in visual studio + C# it would be awesome!
Any idea will be appreciated, thanks!
Java is fine if you're comfortable with it.
Many languages have bindings to cross-platform toolkits: for example Python is very pleasant and has PyQt4 or WxPython, both of which can be used to make GUIs which work nicely on Windows or Mac.
In the manage-your-memory world, using Qt from within C++ is actually very pleasant (they have a nice API). I find it creates more elegant applications than my Java code (they feel a tad more native) though YMMV.
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Is there any application for UI sketching on Mac OS X? Something like SketchFlow on Windows.
I really, really, really (you get the idea) love Balsamiq Mockups. It's cross-platform, via Adobe Air.
Omnigraffle is a very nice UI drafting system.
Extra stencils: http://graffletopia.com/
Balsamiq Mockups is cross-platform and is a very solid sketching program.
ForeUI is worth trying. It can run in Mac OS and you can freely switch your design style between sketch and Mac OS look.
Another option is Wireframe Sketcher, which is built atop the Eclipse platform, so is inherently cross-platform.
Haven't tried it, but you might also look at EasyPrototype: http://www.extremeplanner.com/easyprototype/
MockupScreens runs on Mac (I am developer). You might check it out, it's pretty popular. It's low fidelity, aimed for analysts and UX people, ie. non-programmer "civilians".
And here is the most comprehensive list of mockup tools I know of, some of them run on Mac:
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?GuiPrototypingTools
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i'm interested in project management software similar to MS Project. the project is a serious rebuild of my software. we have a bug management system already but i need to track project progress.
i don't like web-based apps so much because the data is either hosted off-site or i need to set up my own server.
i like MS Project but it doesn't seem to compare estimated time with actual time and use it to pro-rate the future work estimates.
i'd like a gantt chart & calendar view.
thank you for your help!
Please give open workbench a try.
Here's the rundown from Wikipedia.
From the list that Ben Hoffstein provided, two caught my eye - eGroupWare and Project Pier. Although those two might not meet your needs, they appear to be worth looking at for my needs.
I used primavera some time back, and I think it can do the said comparison.
I remember when Joel posted about the new Fogbugz Evidence Based Scheduling. Seems like it might be what you're looking for.
It's web-based, but Jira tracks time, and can be combined with the GreenHopper plugin to give an Agile-style Planning Board and Burn-down chart. It doesn't, however, do velocity for you.
I also used the open source tool OpenProj, worked perfect for me.
since i'm a one-man project, it became clear the best solution for me was an Excel workbook that tracks time management & pro-rates remaining tasks. the Recalculate macro updates the statistics.
Try Crew! http://www.devmynd.com/crew
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I would like to have some suggestions about which third-part controls can we use in our Visual C++ MFC application?
We've deployed IOComp's Plot Pack in both ActiveX and .Net flavors with great success. Great API, incredibly flexible, provides a toolbar that lets users pan/zoom/customize. It's solid, has a long track record, relatively inexpensive, and is very fast.
(I'm not affiliated, by the way.)
Xtreme Toolkit Pro controls
http://www.codejock.com/products/toolkitpro/
We have used the ActiveX version of TeeChart (http://www.steema.com/), which works nicely and comes with many MFC examples. It's ActiveX though, that may or may not be a problem in your case.
The IOComp package (http://iocomp.com/ ) looks great, but does seem quite expensive to me at around $850 for a developer license
The TeeChart package ( http://www.steema.com ) looks comparable at a smaller prices of $450. They have a free 50 day evaluation license
There are a couple of free chart controls at codeproject:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/miscctrl/CBarChart.aspx
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/miscctrl/High-speedCharting.aspx
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/miscctrl/graph2d.aspx This one I have used. The integration procedure is awkward, but it does the job.
FarPoint and codejock, AFAIK, do not have chart controls.
Just for completeness Scientific charting control. I used it some time ago and it was pretty easy.
Best chart for MFC I have seen, modern, stable and very well written
http://www.codejock.com/products/chart/
If you don't mind paying, there's FarPoint Spread:
http://www.componentsource.com/selec/products/farpoint-spread/summary.html
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I am preparing a presentation using Google Slides, though I can also work on the presentation within Open Office that will include code snippets.
Is there any easy way to perform basic syntax highlighting on the code snippets with either Google Docs or Open Office Presenter?
Edit: Since I believe that I can find a way to embed HTML, any tools that can perform syntax highlighting on HTML would also be welcome suggestions.
An on-line syntax highlighter:
http://hilite.me/
Just copy and paste into your document.
http://www.tohtml.com/ created syntax highlighted HTML code for lots of languages. It might be what you're looking for.
If you're using Visual Studio (this might work in Eclipse also, but I never tried) and you copy & paste into Microsoft Word (or any other microsoft product) it will paste the code in whatever color your IDE had. Then you just need to copy the text out of word and into your desired application and it will paste as rich text.
I've only seen this work across Visual Studio to other Microsoft products though so I don't know if it will be any help.
With the new Add-Ons for Google Drive, you can get code highlighting with the Code Pretty add-on.
I've also thought of this. Finally, my solution is to use github gist. Don't forget it also has highlight functionality. Just copy it. :)
Just a few suggestions:
Screenshots might be an easy way, but you'll have to make sure the code in the image is big enough and clear enough to read. (not the whole screenshot, just the relevant part)
If you can embed html then there are lots of tools to generate syntax highlighted html.
If you write your code in emacs then you might be interested in the htmlize elisp package.
Check out http://codepad.org. It probably won't solve the poster's problem; but, I think it will be of use to others who read this article.