When you insert a component into a chart or diagram, you essentially create a reference to that component. The component cannot be edited when it is inserted. If the component should change you have the choice of updating to the newer version.
Copying a component into a chart is similar to inserting a component, except that there is no linkage between the instance and the component. For more information, see Copying a Component.
4. Right-click and drag the component from the Component Browser to the chart or select Edit > Insert Component.
Note: When a component is inserted into the graphic editor, it is inserted using the current zoom. That is, if the editor is in Zoom x2, the component is inserted in Zoom x2. If the editor is in Full View, the component is drawn in its original size.
● When inserting a component with global definition sets, the GDSs are loaded in read-only mode to your workarea. This ensures that all global definitions and declarations exist in the new model and that there are no conflicts between the model’s definitions and the inserted component’s definitions.
These GDSs are part of the your model, but you cannot check them into the databank. The GDSs are automatically deleted when all references to components that need them are deleted. The imported GDSs are listed in the Chart tab of the Rational Statemate main window, but have a different icon in the tree section.
● When a component is inserted it is read-only. Stubs are also read-only. You cannot modify the stub position, stub name, or stub mode. Only the instance name can be modified. By default, the component name is <COMPONENT_NAME>. You can add an instance name before the <. This is done using the regular Edit Text operations, but when applying the change, the application checks that the <COMPONENT_NAME> name was not changed.
By default, you cannot change the color or text font of a component. An activity chart Specific Preference Allow editing of Instance Component (default No) blocks editing operations on component instances. When the preference is set to Yes, you can change the size, shape, color and font of the component instances, and the color of stubs. However, you cannot move, delete or change the name of stubs.
Arrows only enter and exit the head of the stubs.