I am working on some software tools used to design and optimize telecommunication networks: routing, bandwidth allocation, and topology.
To represent network nodes and junction links, I am currently using standard MFC calls to draw objects such as lines and ellipses with mouse clicks, menu commands, etc.
At present, this has been an adequate means of graphically representing what the network looks like, since I care more about how to use the basic algorithms correctly, increasing efficiency, etc.
At some point, I want to improve the look of the software. Does anyone know of any GUI software that is especially suitable for this purpose, open source or otherwise that would be suitable for the network building phase? The goal is to use something smoother than what I'm doing now, especially when it comes to (for example) dragging nodes into the drawing area and setting their properties. Also interesting is the graphics for displaying histograms containing levels of link usage.
Thanks pending.
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