Generated Event

A generated event is a type of event that is caused by the handling of another event. In other words, while processing one event, things happen in the statechart that cause the statechart to generate a new event and have that new event processed by the statechart.

There are two types of generated events:

• Raised events, where the author of the statechart specifies that a named event should be generated
• Internal events, where the statechart itself generates events automatically when transitions occur.