Hello, first; thank you for an excellent library collection. I recently discovered it, and I'm impressed! My question: How can I pass a pointer to an object into the state machine? I want to use my state machine to control a real-life elevator. All the functions for controlling this elevator is inside class Elevator; I.e: myElevator->startEngine(UP); I've tried different approaches as you might see in my attached code, but I keep getting this error: statemachine: ../boost/boost/cast.hpp:97: Target boost::polymorphic_downcast(Source*) [with Target = ElevatorSM*, Source = boost::statechart::state_machine<ElevatorSM, ElevatorActive>]: Assertion `dynamic_cast<Target>(x) == x' failed. Aborted h-file: http://codepad.org/i3rAjT1p cpp-file: http://codepad.org/TpaWluCz Appreciate your help, Bernt-Johan Bergshaven, Norway