Missing some icons in active diagram

General Questions/Discussions
1

I download Visual Paradigm 3.1 and the evaluation key for moduler version. Then I try to create an active diagram. When I click on an existing diagram element, I don’t see the following icons discribed in the user manual:

  1. horizontal synchronization resource icon
  2. virtical synchronization resource icon
  3. signal receipt resource icon
  4. signal sending resource icon

This make it almost impossible to draw an activity diagram.

2

Dear Guoheng,

The icons are just shortcut buttons (resources) for creating commonly used diagram elements. To view those least commonly used resources, just select menu “View” -> “Show Extra Resources”. And you can always create diagram elements using the diagram toolbar (located on the left-hand-side of each diagram).

Regards,

Antony.

3

“View” -> “Show Extra Resources” works. But the diagram toolbar is hard to use. I clicked the “Transition” icon on the toolbar and click on the diagram trying to create a new transition. Nothing happened.

Anyway, I can creat an active diagram now.

4

Dear Guoheng,

To create a connection line in VP-UML, you need to click on the source shape, then drag the connection over the destination shape and release the mouse button.

Regards,

Antony.