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The editor described in this chapter is a combined OM, SC, DP, MSC and HMSC Editor. This editor is thus capable of showing five different types of diagrams, namely the Object Model (OM) diagrams, State Chart (SC) diagrams, Deployment (DP) diagrams, Message Sequence Chart (MSC) diagrams, and High-level MSC (HMSC) diagrams.

This combined editor is called the editor throughout this chapter. If only a specific editor is applied, that editor will be explicitly mentioned.

OM, SC, DP and HMSC diagrams are handled by one editor window, whereas MSC diagrams are handled by a separate editor window. This means that two editor windows are needed to handle all five diagram types.

The editor handling SDL diagrams is described in Using the SDL Editor.

How to edit MSC diagrams is described more closely in Editing MSC Diagrams.

Diagrams and Pages

The handling of diagrams and pages is common to the OM, SC, DP, MSC and HMSC diagrams. The editor can handle any number of diagrams.

The pages that the editor displays are always contained within a diagram. A diagram can contain any number of pages, but, must contain at least one page. The MSC and the DP Editor are exceptions as they always contain only one page. This page is enlarged when objects are added, etc.

The pages that are contained in a diagram are listed and handled according to a fixed order. While the order of pages is initially defined by the order in which the pages are added when created, pages can be renamed and rearranged with the Edit menu choice in the Pages menu.

This order is reflected in some of the menu choices that are related to pages. Also, the structure displayed by the Organizer will adopt the same order. See The Organizer.


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