Event Transitions Example¶
Event Transitions example shows how to use event transitions, a feature of The State Machine Framework
main.cpp Example File¶
eventtransitions.pro Example File¶
The Event Transitions example shows how to use event transitions, a feature of The State Machine Framework .
The Event Transitions Example illustrates how states change when a user enters or leaves the area of a button. The states are handled by a QStateMachine object. The screen consists of a QVBoxLayout with a central button.
When the mouse is outside the button, the text in the button displays “Outside”. When the mouse enters the button, it displays “Inside”.
class Window : public QWidget { public: Window(QWidget *parent = 0) : QWidget(parent) { QPushButton *button = new QPushButton(this); button->setSizePolicy(QSizePolicy::Expanding, QSizePolicy::Expanding); QVBoxLayout *layout = new QVBoxLayout; layout->addWidget(button); layout->setContentsMargins(80, 80, 80, 80); setLayout(layout);The
Window
class’s constructors begins by creating a button. This button is added tolayout
, which is a QVBoxLayout object. Then two states are created:s1
is the state “Outside”, ands2
is the state “Inside”.QStateMachine *machine = new QStateMachine(this); QState *s1 = new QState(); s1->assignProperty(button, "text", "Outside"); QState *s2 = new QState(); s2->assignProperty(button, "text", "Inside");State
s1
is the state “Outside” and states2
is state “Inside”.QEventTransition *enterTransition = new QEventTransition(button, QEvent::Enter); enterTransition->setTargetState(s2); s1->addTransition(enterTransition);When the button receives an event of type QEvent::Enter and the state machine is in state
s1
, the machine will transition to states2
.QEventTransition *leaveTransition = new QEventTransition(button, QEvent::Leave); leaveTransition->setTargetState(s1); s2->addTransition(leaveTransition);When the button receives an event of type QEvent::Leave and the state machine is in state
s2
, the machine will transition back to states1
.QState *s3 = new QState(); s3->assignProperty(button, "text", "Pressing..."); QEventTransition *pressTransition = new QEventTransition(button, QEvent::MouseButtonPress); pressTransition->setTargetState(s3); s2->addTransition(pressTransition); QEventTransition *releaseTransition = new QEventTransition(button, QEvent::MouseButtonRelease); releaseTransition->setTargetState(s2); s3->addTransition(releaseTransition);Next, state
s3
is created.s3
will be entered when the button receives an event of type QEvent::MouseButtonPress and the state machine is in states2
. When the button receives an event of type QEvent::MouseButtonRelease and the state machine is in states3
, the machine will revert to states2
.machine->addState(s1); machine->addState(s2); machine->addState(s3); machine->setInitialState(s1); machine->start(); } };Finally, the states are added to the machine as top-level states, the initial state is set to be
s1
(“Outside”), and the machine is started.int main(int argc, char **argv) { QApplication app(argc, argv); Window window; window.resize(300, 300); window.show(); return app.exec(); }The main() function constructs a Window object that displays the QVBoxLayout object
layout
with itsbutton
.