I apologise, firstly for not being more precise in my original 
question and secondly for Eric's e-mail being rejected.

Firstly, this is purely a Rose question, and concerns focus 
lines on the lifeline of an object in a sequence diagram.

I show an object activity starting with an incoming message to 
its lifeline. This starts a focus line on the object lifeline. 
When the object is finished it sends a 'completed' message and 
goes idle.

Unfortunately the focus line continues past the completed 
message almost to the end of the lifeline. I can see no way of 
terminating the focus at the 'completed' message, which to me 
would indicate 'end of activity'. When I resize the focus to 
where I want it, it bounces back to the bottom of my diagram. 
If I ever do manage to get it near correct, focus lines 
inevitably move upon saving and reloading the model. Sometimes 
they'll move simply by zooming the model on the screen.

I need to be able to do this for demonstrating activity to 
business folks. I need to show that employee 'x' starts work 
when the hooter goes of and finishes work when the the hooter 
goes off again. I draw my sequence diagram and it shows 
employee x doing loads of overtime, because he's still working 
after the second hooter.

As to the 2nd matter, seeing as how my email contains 50% spam 
every day, my email provider spams me themselves and their 
email system generally ignores my rules for filtering email, 
all I can say is that 'Eric you really must be a special case'.

Les.

---- On Fri, 03 May 2002, Eric D. Tarkington 
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

> 
> Les Munday wrote:
> > Here's my problem: I wish to show that an object (or actor)
> > receives a message performs an activity, sends a completed
> > message to another object (or actor) then stops.
> > 
> > How do you show this on a sequence diagram with Rose?
> 
> Les,
> 
> What do you mean when you say that the object stops?  Calls 
the
> destructor?
> 
> Could you satisfy your need by showing the object sending a 
reflexive
> message, performActivity(), followed by a message to the 
other object,
> followed by doing nothing else?
> 
> BTW, your email service rejected my reply to 
[EMAIL PROTECTED], with
> 
>     Recipient: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>     Reason:    we don't accept mail from spammers
> 
> I'm hurt.  I may be tedious, but I'm no spammer!
> 
> -Eric
> 
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