Bar Menu

The Bar popup menu contains the following commands:

Start Control Flow creates a Control Flow starting from a Bar. Such a Flow can only end at a Node or at an empty space.Small circles represent the position of the points. If you click on a space, the new point will be an intermediate point. A Flow can have a maximum of 30 points. To complete the Flow, click on the Node where the Flow is to end. If you want the Flow to end at a blank space, click twice at that point. Alternatively, if the Flow is to end at an empty space, click twice at that position.If prompting is switched "on" for Flows, you are asked for the name of the Flow. If prompting is switched "off" for Flows you can add this information later, using the Alter command from the Flow pop-up menu.

Resize

Small. The icon is changed to the "small" size.

Medium.  The icon is changed to the "medium" size.

Large. The icon is changed to the "large" size.

Shrink/Grow. Use the mouse to drag the icon to the required size.

Delete enables you to delete a Bar and its Flows from the diagram. To undo the deletion, use Undo.

Add Sheet enables you to add a Sheet to the Control Specification for the Flow Diagram you are editing. If you also want to access the existing sheets of the Control Specification use the Show Sheets command to open up the Control Spec Selector.

Show Sheets enables you to edit the Control Specification of the Flow Diagram that you are currently editing, if one exists. This command opens the Control Specification Selector containing a list of the Sheets in the Control Specification.

Check enables you to validate the selected Bar based on the analyzer options. To analyze the whole Requirements Model, use the Analyze command from the Requirements menu. When the analysis is complete an output window is displayed which contains a list of the errors found.

Annotations enables you to attach annotations to an object. The Annotation Selector is opened listing the Annotation types available for the object.