Flowcharting

[Benny]

For a couple of uni assignments I've had to illustrates my programs (algorithms) with Flowcharts. I hate doing these with a passion, such a pain in the arse trying to create them. I know there are flowchating programs that are supposed to make the job easier by connecting the shapes and stuff, but I still despise doing them.

Hence this gave me an idea for a programming project. Basically I want to create a flowchart mark-up language.

So I can define a flowchart in words (pseudo-code) and then the program parses that and generates a nifty looking flowchart for me.

Due to the fact that whenever I have to write pseudo-code for my C programs, it ends up looking like a Python program, python seems like a good choice for this..?

Any thought, suggestions, ideas, warnings, interest in helping out?

Cheers.

[Halide]

That sounds like it would be really complicated :) I'm just a newbie though! :P

[Strike]

Benny: sounds like a good idea to me, in fact you could just use Python to create files for some external flowcharting program like Dia (whose files are in XML, if I'm not mistaken).

[Benny]

Ah, so Dia can acutally do this but using xml files?

Yeh well, my program could simply parse the pseudo-code and generate an xml file...........for starters at least. Would like to tackle the task of having it create the flowchart as well though.

[perltea]

Hi,
i suggest listing the project on www.colance.com and having a break ! get someone else do it lol. :)