Understand State Presentation Options

A state is a constraint or a situation in the life cycle of an object, in which a constraint holds, the object executes an activity or waits for an event. Visual Paradigm offer wide range of presentation settings to let you configure the visual presentation of your state machine diagram. Below are all presentation options available to states in Visual Paradigm and what are their meaning.

Options	Available Setting	Meaning	Example
Show Region Name		To display the name of the regions of the state.
Show Internal Activities		To display the entry, do and exit activity inside the state.
Show Internal Transitions		To display the internal transition in region inside the state.
Show Precondition, Postcondition and Body of Internal Activities		To display the precondition, postcondition and body inside state’s internal activities.
Show Parameters of Internal Activities		To display the parameter(s) defined inside state’s internal activities.
Follow Diagram		Follow to diagrams display option to present the state in standard notation or stereotype icon.
Standard		Display state in standard notation.
Stereotype Icon		Display state with stereotype’s icon.
User-Defined		Display state with predefined images or image from file system.
Primitive Shape		Display state as primitive shape such as Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle, Oval, Triangle, Octagon, Diamond, Pentagon, Trapezoid or Hexagon.
Caption Placement
	Show Caption Name as Tab	To display the caption as tab at the top left of the state.
	Left	To display the caption at the left of the state.
	Center	To display the caption at the center of the state.
	Right	To display the caption at the right of the state.
	Center Vertically	To display the caption at the right of the state.
	Follow Diagram	To display the caption vertically center within the state (require not showing internal activities).
Show/Hide Stereotypes		Show/hide stereotypes on the selected state.
Show/Hide Tagged Values		Show/hide tagged values on the selected state.