Archive for category: Open API

A C4 Container Diagram is the second level of the C4 Model – a popular way to visualize software architecture. If the System Context Diagram shows the big picture, the Container Diagram zooms in one level deeper. In Visual Paradigm, you can create the C4 Container Diagram directly from the diagram editor or through the Plugin API. This article explains how to generate it programmatically using the Plugin API.

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Visual Paradigm allows user to using custom graphic to present stereotypes. Besides using GUI, this can also being configured using Plugin API. In this article you will learn how to configure stereotype icon using Plugin.

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Visual Paradigm Plugin API allow users extend functionalities of the software by writing custom plugins. The custom plugins can be triggered from application toolbar, diagram or model element’s popup menu, or from diagram’s toolbar. For application toolbar by default the plugins will be grouped under the Plugins menu. In this article you will learn how to create custom ribbon in application for organizing your plugins.

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In Visual Paradigm every model elements and diagrams can be describe with rich text content. With Visual Paradigm’s Open API it provide a channel to user to manipulate the diagram and model elements. In this article we will show you how to retrieve the images inside model element’s rich text description for further manipulation. We will demonstrate this by putting the image into ImageIcon and display using a message pane.

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The project reference feature in Visual Paradigm allow users to reuse model elements from different projects. This not just saving effort in re-creating same model element again and again across projects, but also maintain the consistence of models as the changes on the model element automatically reflect on the projects which using it. In complex situation such as multiple levels of reference project sometimes it will be difficult to identify the origin of a particular model element, especially when the diagrams are develop by multiple users. By using Open API we can create plugin to find out the origin project of a model element. In this article we will show you how to create this plugin. Read more