8.1 Creating a Box

Boxes offer a convenience for organizing related items in our charts. We create a box by using the Box tool in the Stateflow Editor window shown in Figure 8.1.

Figure 8.1: The Stateflow Editor window with the mouse pointer near the Box tool

To create a Box we use the following steps:

1. We select the Box tool.

2. We move the cursor into the drawing area. In the drawing area, the mouse cursor becomes box-shaped, and we click in a desired location to create a box.

3. The created box appears with a question mark (?) name in its upper left-hand corner, we click the question mark label, and a text cursor appears in place of the question mark.

4. We enter a name for the box and click outside of the box when finished. A typical box appears as shown in Figure 8.2.

Figure 8.2: A created box

To delete a box, we click it to select it and we press the Delete key, or we choose Cut ( Ctrl+ X) from the Edit menu.

8.2 Changing a State to a Box

We can change an existing state to a box and back to a state with the following procedure:

1. We...