About this task
When
you right-click an instance line during
animation, the menu contains the following options:
- Open Animated Statechart or Open Animated
Activity Diagram displays the appropriate animated diagram for
selected object.
- Generate Event opens
the Event window so
you can generate an event. For more information, see Generating events by using the event generator.
- Add Breakpoint opens
the Breakpoint window,
described in Creating breakpoints.
If the instance
line represents more than a
single object, these commands are applied to the root object (the
object that would have been mapped to the instance line in SingleObject mode).
Note the following information:
- If
any object is added explicitly to a sequence
diagram, messages it receives are shown as being received by it (rather
than shown as going to the "owner").
- An instance
line that is mapped to an object and
its parts do not represent parts that have their own instance lines
in the same diagram.
- A single
runtime occurrence such as
sending a message is viewed only once in the case of a message relayed
to a part by its ports for the owner. For example, if a message is
sent to a part by the port of its owner, the message to an instance
line that represents the owner and its parts is shown once. In other
words, the fact that the message was relayed by the port for the owner
is not displayed because logically this is a single occurrence.