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chewie54 wrote on 20.08.2007 17:45:
> Hello,
> 
> What would be the best cross-platform GUI library to use for a vector
> based CAD program ( something like Visio on Windows )   WxWidgets,
> Tk,   PyQt,  Java Swing,  Java SWT,????   I need the capibility to
> draw and edit in a window that looks like a page of paper so WYSIWYG
> is very important,  and I need to save the drawings in vector based
> file formats like PS, EPS,  SVG, as well as image formats like jpg,
> png, and gif.  Also, the images need to be high resolution so that
> they can be pasted into various other programs in Windows OS,  and
> Linux OS,  and the Mac OS.   Scripting is also a requirement.

There are a lot of graphing libraries out there.

The NetBeans platform has a graphing library that integrates with their 
framework (http://graph.netbeans.org). So if you are planning to base your 
application on the NetBeans platform that would probably be the first choice.
The Eclipse RCP framework as a similar thing (GEF, I believe)

If you are not using one those platforms, there are some "stand-alone" libraries 
out there.

I have never used one of those (the project where I intended to use one did not 
happen), but some of them look quite good:

http://www.jgraph.com/jgraph.html (commercial and GPL version)
http://www.yworks.com/en/index.html
http://jgrapht.sourceforge.net/

You are the only one to decide which of them is the right one for your job. 
JGraph has a pretty impressing list of applications using it.

Thomas

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