Viewing animated sequence diagrams

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Opening animated sequence diagrams
You can open an nonanimated sequence diagram in an animated version.
Adding and deleting instance lines
To add an instance line to an animated sequence diagram, create an instance line using the Instance Line tool and name the instance, or drag an instance from the browser.
Auto-creating animated instances
You can make it so that animated instance lines on sequence diagrams are auto-created so that you can see the run-time instance appear in the animated sequence diagram when they are created. (Typically during an animation session, you have to drag the created instance from the browser in Rhapsody onto the animated sequence diagram to see the operation of that instance getting called.) However, with added notation to an instance line name on a sequence diagram, you can have the product auto‑create the animated instances when you run animation. This capability means that you can mark a specific class to auto-create any sequence diagram instances at run time on the animated sequence diagram.
Showing state transitions in animated sequence diagrams
An animated sequence diagram can cross reference an animated statechart by showing the event of an object entering a state. In IBM® Engineering Systems Design Rhapsody , the Condition Mark indicates that an object is in a certain condition or state at a particular point in a sequence.
The system border
The system border, if present, is connected to all instances participating in the execution that do not have a special line of their own. In other words, a message is drawn between two instance lines if both the sending and receiving instances have instance lines in the animated sequence diagram.
Message animation
Various message arrows are created for animated sequence diagrams.
Limiting message display in animated sequence diagrams
When running an animation of a sequence diagram containing a very large number of messages, your system might run low on virtual storage. You can use the SequenceDiagram::General::MaxNumberOfAnimMessages and SequenceDiagram::General::OnReachedMaxAnimMessages properties to prevent such problems by limiting the number of messages displayed at any one time.
Suppressing animated sequence diagram messages
A number of properties control if messages appear on animated sequence diagrams.

Parent topic: Running animated models