DRAKON Editor

DRAKON Editor is a small application designed specifically for helping you author DRAKON flowcharts. The DRAKON visual language can be used by software architects, quality specialists and developers in order to provide an easy explanation and interpretation of a software system.

To run the utility you need to install the ActiveTcl compiler that delivers the TcL (Tool Command Language) distribution on your system.

DRAKON Editor comes wrapped up in a portable package which can be deployed on your system by simply running the executable file. You may get rid of the tool by deleting the files that you have downloaded from the Internet.

The portability mode ensures your Windows registry doesn’t get bloated with extra entries. Copying the app on a USB flash drive or other devices is also possible.

DRAKON Editor sports a clean layout that keeps track of all your diagrams in a list. You may generate user-defined categories where you can organize your diagrams.

The program works with sequence, entity-relationship and class diagrams, and lets you easily go to the previous or next diagram in the list, zoom in or out of the diagram, and apply zoom to all diagrams.

DRAKON Editor gives you the possibility to insert various preset elements in the working environment, namely entity, entity with fields, attributes, vertical and horizontal lines, direct links, inline and standalone comments, as well as inheritance links.

Elements can be moved using the drag-and-drop support and resized by dragging the green points displayed when you press on the target object.

When it comes to editing options, you are allowed to cut, copy, paste or delete objects, undo or redo your actions, tidy up all diagrams, enter a diagram description, and perform searches. Plus, you can change the color of the background, font and border of each object, and export diagrams to PNG or PDF file format.

You may edit file description and alter file properties by selecting the programming language (e.g. C++, C#, D, Java, Lua, Verilog, Python, Javascript), and modifying the font and size of the text.

To make a long story short, DRAKON Editor mixes up an intuitive interface with a decent feature pack in order to help you generate software requirements and specifications, procedures and rules, as well as any documentation that explains how to do something.