Control flow

The 'Control flow' property determines whether or not Trace Modeler will highlight the flow of control in an interaction.

There are two possible values : Hide and Show, and you can also customize its color.

It is one of the diagram style properties, the examples below demonstrate its effect on a diagram.

UML sequence diagram that doesn't show the control flow, created with Trace Modeler

UML sequence diagram that shows the control flow, created with Trace Modeler

Note that Trace Modeler currently always assumes a single flow of control.

You can show/hide the 'Control flow' for a style in two different ways :

In the diagram style window

Open the 'Diagram Style' window

Select the desired value from the 'Control flow' dropdown list

In the diagram context menu

Open the diagram context menu

Check or uncheck the 'Show flow' menu item

To change the color of the highlight in the 'Diagram style' window

Open the 'Diagram Style' window

Press the button with the ellipsis ('...') for the 'Control flow color' property

Select the color you want from the dialog that appears

Control flow

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