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39 Using Diagram Editors

This chapter describes the diagram editors you use for creating, drawing and printing OM (Object Models), SC (State Charts), DP (Deployment), MSC (Message Sequence Charts) and HMSC (High-level Message Sequence Charts) diagrams. Another name for HMSC is "road map".

The MSC Editor is also available in a flavor called MSC Tracer where the user is not allowed to add or remove symbols. This is only possible by an API which enables custom applications to interactively produce an MSC which reflects user defined events. Some features in the MSC Editor are not available in the MSC Tracer. For further information on this API, see the header file <product install dir>/include/msctrace/msctrace.h.

This chapter contains information about the functionality, menus, dialogs and windows of the diagram editors. For a guide to how to create and edit MSCs, see Editing MSC Diagrams.

Note: SDL Editor

The SDL editor is not covered in this chapter. For information regarding the SDL editor please see Using the SDL Editor.


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