Adding Loops to Sequence Diagrams

I’m new to VP and I’m having trouble adding a loop to my sequence diagram.

I just need to indicate that a few commands will be executed in a loop and can’t seem how to show this using VP. Any help that anyone can provide would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

-Jade

I figured it out, thanks to a previous post I missed the first time through.

For anyone else who is wondering, just make a new combined fragment and you can change the type to loop under the object specification menu’s interaction operator menu.

One more question though, when you create a combined fragment the diagram box has a dashed line through the middle (for alts obviously), is it possible to get rid of this? Right now I just have them dragged out of the diagram but it seems like there should be a way to remove this line. Thanks!

-Jade

Dear Jade,

You can create a Loop combined fragment directly by selecting the button on the toolbar (mouse press on the Alternative Combined Fragment button for a while until the popup menu appears). By the way, it is possible to remove an operand (each partition in the combined fragment, separated by dash line) using the popup menu.

Regards,

Antony.