Welcome to Gaphor’s documentation!

Some highlights of the documentation:

• A manual. It outlines some of the ideas in and behind Gaphor.
• The Tech section contains some interesting articles about the technology that drives Gaphor and Gaphas, Gaphor’s canvas widget.

If you’re into writing plug-ins for Gaphor you should have a look at our fabulous Hello world plug-in.

• The Gaphor manual
  • Introduction
  • Working with Gaphor
  • Creating models
  • Creating new diagrams
  • Copy and paste
  • Drag and drop
  • Writing plugins and services
  • Extending models

Running Gaphor on different platforms:

• Gaphor on Windows
• Gaphor on Linux
• Gaphor on macOS
• Custom Python Installation Location

Tech section

• Gaphor’s Framework
• UML datamodel
• Stereotypes
• Description of Gaphors data model
• Connection protocol
• Actions, menu items, toolbars and toolboxes
• Gaphor Diagram Items
• Services
• Plugins
• Service Oriented Architecture
• Saving and loading Gaphor diagrams
• UndoManager
• Gaphor XML format

External links

• You should definitely check out http://www.agilemodeling.com.
  • The UML diagrams (although Gaphor does not see it that black-and-white).
  • http://www.agilemodeling.com/essays/
• The official UML metamodel specification. This ‘’is’’ our data model.