Flow chart generator

[Dabber2]

Hi.
Does anyone know of a good and free flow chart generator for Fortran 90? The only ones I have been able to find so far are Visustin and OmegaChart, neither of which are free. My code is far too long to draw one out by hand.
Thanks

 

[xwb]

Do you really want to flowchart the entire program? You could do just the main bits to see the logic but I've never known anyone to flowchart an entire program, especially a long one (even in the old days before UML and such like were invented).

 

[xwb]

Try googling

flow chart generator free fortran

 

[GerritGroot]

I've been looking for the same about two years ago. For fortran they are hard to be found and free+for_fortran is next to impossible to find. Visustin was the only reasonable one, but is not free.

Of course nobody wants a flowchart of a whole code, except for bosses asking for it. What they don't tell you is how to place such a flowchart which only fits on an A0 paper into your document.

(My personal opinion is that a flowchart is of no use at all, and less when you make it after having programmed)

 

[Dabber2]

Hi,
Thanks for your reply's. I may not need to flowchart the whole program but the code is so vast that even the main bits will take days to flow chart manually. I've searched Google and cant find any free ones, and $250 is way outside my budget...
I'll make a start producing one by hand, unless anyone else has any ideas.
Thanks.

 

[xwb]

Actually I use flow charts the other way round - I use it to analyze what has gone wrong with a complicated piece of code or how it works and possibly rewrite it so I don't need to draw anything the next time I look at it.

Quite surprising that it is not the legacy bits of code (>20 years old) that need this: it is the stuff written recently (>5 years and <10 years that needs it.

 

[ArkM]

Better try to search any Fortran source code formatter then study its output.

I supposed that flowchart-lovers dead out 40 year ago. Obviously, I was wrong...