Displaying State Machine Elements
- Updated2025-10-31
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You can view or hide the following state machine information in PAgraph:
- Grid
- Element contents
- Comments
- Transition conditions
Access these options from the toolbar or from the View menu and the corresponding submenu commands.
Grid
By default, the grid (
) is hidden. The grid has fixed spacing that cannot be changed.
Element Contents
Element content (
) means the three code areas that can be filled for the input, cyclic, and output parts of
the state machine.
Filled element contents are displayed at the start of PAgraph as colored rectangles at the right edge of states. If an element area is empty, it is filled with the background color of the state.
Element contents are displayed as a preset.
Comments
You can place comments (
) in any number at any position. When creating a comment, only the current date is
displayed in the comment field.
Enter your comment by opening the context menu and selecting Change. Alternatively, press the F2 key above the comment field.
If the comments are hidden, they are automatically displayed again when a new comment is created. Comments are displayed by default.
When creating comments, they are not assigned to an element.
You can assign the comment to an element like a speech bubble. To do this, click the yellow rectangle in the upper-right corner of the Comment element (see the following figure, marker on the left) and drag it to the corresponding element.
Transition Conditions
Transition conditions (
) cause your condition to appear instead of the transition name. Transition names are
displayed by default.
