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December 28, 2015
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Dynamic Shapes

  • December 28, 2015
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Hi All,

I am wanting to create a program for drawing simple dynamic shapes similar to Microsoft Visio, where there would be a grid background and several dynamic shapes that would be scale - able.

can any please advise the best course to follow and what applications I should use to create this.

many thanks Michael

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Participant
February 1, 2025

Here https://appagg.com/search/vector%20drawing:macos/ you can get about 98 Mac Apps for vector drawings.

sinious
Legend
December 29, 2015

I hope you're pretty good at math. Either way you can get quite a bit done using existing JavaScript/Canvas libraries like these two:

Paper.js — Examples

Raphaël—JavaScript Library

They have a lot of automation in them. Take a good look at some of their examples (especially paper) and notice how rather simple the source code is. YMMV but this kind of thing is a very simple thing to do in Flash, however I expect you'll want it to work on mobile devices, so expect a bit of an uphill learning curve.

sydwestAuthor
Participant
December 30, 2015

I see they are very complex I am looking for something like Visio, simple rectangle, circle, eclipse etc scale-able

and thanks,

Nancy OShea
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 3, 2016