Problem with litetime and self-messages

Question

@startuml Bob -> Alice: Hello! activate Alice Alice -> Alice : bug deactivate Alice @enduml

When sending a message from a participant to itself and then stopping lifetime, the arrow is after end of lifetime.

I think this is an error.

Answer 1

This still happens (2023-01-03)

Comments

Hello R., and all,

See similar issue and/or workaround here:

• https://forum.plantuml.net/5097/deactivate-not-correct-if-last-message-is-message-to-itself
• https://forum.plantuml.net/8228/activation-after-group-end-does-not-work

Then here are some workaround:

@startuml
Bob -> Alice: Hello!
activate Alice
Alice -> Alice : workaround
Alice -[hidden]-> Alice
deactivate Alice
@enduml

Or:

@startuml
!pragma teoz true
Bob -> Alice: Hello!
activate Alice
Alice -> Alice : workaround
||0||
deactivate Alice
@enduml

Enjoy,
Regards.