Selecting and Deselecting Objects :: Creating Stateflow Chart Diagrams (Stateflow User's Guide)

Stateflow User's Guide

Selecting and Deselecting Objects

Once an object is in the drawing area, you need to select it to make any changes or additions to that object.

Select objects in the Stateflow diagram editor as follows:

To select an object, click anywhere inside of the object.
To select multiple adjacent objects, click and drag a selection rubberband so that the rubberband box encompasses or touches the objects you want to select, and then release the mouse button.

All objects or portions of objects within the rubberband are selected.

To select multiple separate objects, simultaneously press the Shift key and click an object or rubberband a group of objects.

This adds objects to the list of already selected objects unless an object was already selected, in which case, the object is deselected. This type of multiple object selection is useful for selecting objects within a state without selecting the state itself when you rubberband select a state and all of its objects and then Shift-click inside the containing state to deselect it.

To select all objects in the Stateflow diagram, from the Edit menu select Select All.

You can also select all objects by selecting Select All from the right-click shortcut menu.

To deselect all selected objects, press the Esc key.

Pressing the Esc key again displays the parent of the current chart.

When an object is selected, it is highlighted in the color set as the selection color (blue by default; see Specifying Colors and Fonts for more information).

Specifying Colors and Fonts Cutting and Pasting Objects