Re: [Boost-users] [statechart] Asynchronous Machines

From: Leon Mergen (leon_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-21 10:44:31

David Greene wrote:

>If I have an asynchronous state machine running in another thread and
>I send it an event, is there any way to have the sending thread block
>until the event is processed?  I need to use an asynchoronous machine
>because the rest of my app is threaded but yet there are points where
>I must synchronize to know the machine is in a certain state before
>moving on.
>  
>
Can't you use something like the half-sync/half-async design pattern to 
solve this ?

Regards,

Leon Mergen