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"Dave" <pplppp_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
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> the FAQ illustrates how to modify the existing layout of an FSM, but I
> doubt whether it would be possible to implement the main FSM in the
> main exe and then dynamically load dlls to add inner/sub-states to
> existing states; since the state transition/reactions have to be
> specified as template parameters.
>
> >Out of curiosity: Would you care to describe what kind of application 
> >you need such a library for?
>
> This is probably off-topic for this ng but I'll provide my reasons so
> you can decide if they're reasonable or not.
>
> The application I mentioned original post is a call control
> application, in fact several of them. (Naturally each application is
> maintained by a group of developers) Each of the applications has a
> flat Fsm with many states. My goal is to design a framework that has a
> main Fsm that is common to all the call control applications (with
> points of customization pre-defined) and then dynamically load DLLs to
> customize the behavior (by adding inner/sub-states) of the Fsm. The
> obvious advantage of doing so would be code reuse. Another reason to 
> do
> so is that if a customization for a specific customer is needed (say
> add a few states to the fsm), only a few DLLs need to be
> modified/added, whereas in the existing design the main application 
> has
> to be modified and recompiled. In this way the customization may be
> done by a developer who does not have full access to the source
> code/statechart, all he/she needs to know is the interface of the
> "point of customization".
>
> Dynamic configurabliity aside, the application I'm working on is a 
> call
> control application, so I only need one instance of the state machine,
> one instance of each state and use context objects to store state
> information for each call. When I skimmed through the statechart
> tutorial I see that the "Entry" and "Exit" functions are implemented
> using the constructor and destructor of the simple_state class, so I
> suppose that each state object is constructed when entered and
> destructed when exited. I'm not sure.. if a state is entered and 
> exited
> repeatedly, say in the stopwatch example, whether the object
> construction/destruction incurs an unecessary cost. If I'm wrong,
> please correct me.
>
> If there's a free Fsm libary (not licensed under GPL) that satisfies 
> my
> requirements that would be great, but I would also consider commercial
> products. Yet I'm under the impression that commerial Fsm libaries
> usually come with graphical UML editors... right now I'm stuck with
> Rational Rose 98 (old version), so the new tool would have to be able
> to import UML diagrams drawn using Rational Rose 98. One good thing
> about Rational Rose is that the saved files are pretty human readable
> so I can just write a script to parse the state chart specifications
> and generate code that uses some Fsm libarary (say boost statechart).
> Of course another alternative would be rely on the UML editor to
> generate frameowrk code for me but I would still have to make some
> modifications to archive dynamic configurability.
>
> thanks
>
> Dave
> - I'm a novice please be nice :-)
>
>
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