Re: [Boost-users] Boost MSM: Can not get out of the submachine

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Boost MSM: Can not get out of the submachine
From: gauravk (gaurav_kulkarni_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-06-06 12:56:19

Christophe Henry-3 wrote:
> 
> 
> I tried and it worked. I did:
> - declare pseudo exit: struct payment_done: public exit_pseudo_state<none>
> - change inside transition: Row < check_payment, none, payment_done, none, 
> is_paid>
> - changed outside transition: Row < Payment::exit_pt<payment_done>, none, 
> waiting, dispense_item, none>
> 
> And it compiles and does the work (from what I understood of your
> program).
> I tried with the newest version. If you still have a problem, it might be
> an 
> old bug. What version are you using?
> 

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I got it working too. I was defining the payment_done state as struct
payment_done: public exit_pseudo_state<>, instead of struct payment_done:
public exit_pseudo_state<none>. 
I corrected it and now the code is compiling without error.

Christophe Henry-3 wrote:
> 
> An elegant way to do this is to add this info in the event. Like this you 
> can save it in Payment (you get the event in on_entry and the target state 
> is also passed to the transition).
> I like to see this as the UML equivalent of a function call.
> 

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As per my understanding, it will be possible to convey the info through an
event only if two states are "connected" by an event. But if one has to
access info in one state from another state and if they are not connected by
an event as such, what will be the best way to do that? (In the vending
machine example, the product gets selected in the "selection" state and gets
dispensed in the dispense_item action. These two are not directly connected
through an event.) I can think of one way (not sure if its the best way to
do that though) where the state machine itself stores pointers to objects
that represent states. (eg: state machine have a pointer struct selection
*sel_ptr; The selection state on entry will then update this variable with
"this" ptr. i.e the on_entry method of selection state will have a
statement: sel_prt = this;).  This won't however work if a submachine has to
access info stored in the parent machine. 

Thanks! 

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