What is it? Visustin is a flow chart generator for software developers. Save documentation efforts with automatic code visualization. Visustin reverse engineers your source code into flow charts or UML Activity Diagrams. Visustin reads the if and else statements, loops and jumps and builds a diagram — fully automated. No manual drawing is required.
Why flow charts? Flow charts help you understand complex systems. Fix bugs and write improvements faster than before. Review and debug algorithms. Verify program logic. Document complicated functions. Restructure incomprehensible code. Don't struggle reading hopeless spaghetti code. Read flow charts to gain a quick insight. With flow charts you save time, find lurking bugs and stay away from adding new bugs to badly understood code.
How does Visustin work? Open up your code in Visustin to flowchart it automatically. View, edit, save and print charts or export them to Visio. Bulk flowchart files as a batch job.
Step 1. Select your programming language using the dropdown list in the toolbar.
Step 2. Load your source code. You have several alternatives:
button on the toolbar. Visustin loads any plain text file.Note: Some programming environments save code in binary files. Visustin is cannot load binary files. In this case, Copy & Paste the code in Visustin.
Step 3. Draw the flow chart. Press the button or hit F5. Visustin automatically creates a flow chart from your code. No editing is necessary.
By default, Visustin works in the conventional flow chart style. Alternatively, it can also produce UML-like activity diagrams. Select UML activity diagram style in the Options menu. Both flow charts and UML diagrams contain the same information. The difference is in the chart symbols. Pick the style you prefer. Generally, flow chart style looks better and is easily understood by programmers and non-programmers alike.
| Sample code | Flow chart | UML |
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If x < 10 Then y = 1 End If |
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You have several options to using the flow charts or activity diagrams in your documentation:
Note that the above actions are disabled in the free demo version. Check out the sample charts to see how they look. For a test drive, feel free to send some of your code to Aivosto. We will save or export the charts for you.
Visustin creates flow charts in a fully automated way. With Visustin Editor you can adjust them as needed or even draw new charts from scratch. Press the button or hit F7 to create a flow chart in the Editor. The Editor requires Visustin Pro Edition. It is enabled in the free demo version as well, but saving and printing are disabled.
Use the Structure tab to flowchart a part of a larger file. Check the functions or modules you wish to flowchart and press the button.
Flowchart selected lines. Select the code lines you wish to flowchart and press the button.
Draw the Clipboard. Copy your source code to the Clipboard. Hit Ctrl+D to Draw it.
Drag & Drop code into Visustin. Drag either a source code file (from Windows Explorer) or a selected code snippet (from your code editor). When you drop the code, Visustin loads the code and takes action based on where you dropped it:
Code samples can be found in the Samples menu.