Frame element support

Question

I'm generating sequence diagram with plantuml. It's all fine but lack of support to "Frame element", like notation in figure 1 at http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/3101.html. Since your tool supports things like opt, alt ..., Frame element may be not easy to implement for you. Could you add it?

Another issue is that text in sequence box is not default to be underlined. Could you set it to default or add a global option to set it?

And I would also thank you for creating such an amazing tool! Even visio is available for me, I prefer to your tool!

Comments

What OP wants is a frame around the whole diagram.

Usually this frame has the diagram name/code.

Answer 1

In version 7972, you can use this :

@startuml
skinparam sequenceParticipant underline
Alice -> Bob : hello
@enduml
 

Not sure to understand your request about Frame : are you talking about somethink like http://plantuml.sourceforge.net/sequence.html#Reference ?

Comments

I tried latest version (7973). It works.
But for "frame element", its shape is just what a ref looks like. And it is not only used for ref/alt/opt, but also used as graphical boundary for whole diagram. You can see sample for this at "Fig. 2" in http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/3101.html.

Thanks

Answer 2

The following code snippet does pretty much that.
@startuml

group "frame"

Alice->Bob: Sup Bruh?

end

@enduml