Cranial implosion! Events and collaborations

[sargasso]

 
How do I show event signals on communications diagrams as being the same event?  

I have a simulation timer that fires tick events every so often.  On the diagram are several objects, all of which respond to the signal.  The order in which they respond is immaterial (he said bravely :-/)   Each object has its own handler method and therefore a message can be created from the associations between each object and the responding object - but they have sequence numbers on them that are confusing to say the least.

I am sure I have done this before  

Anyone - please help - I've got to give a pres on SOBA/SODA tomorrow and I need these diagrams to be particularly clean and as indicated I have had a real brain implosion.

tia
Bruce

[mchiuminatto]

First, you can Hide Collaboration Numbers in Diagram Properties.

Messages, in communication diagrams, have a property:  Control Flow Type\Kind ,  you can set the value to  Signal , but graphically makes no difference.

May be you can use an attached note to show that the message is an event handler.

[sargasso]

Thanks Marcello!  Hiding the numbers was what I was after.

B