I'm planing to use the new MetaStateMachine library for a game. But i want to create savegames with boost::serialization so i would need to serialize the state machine. There shouln't be too much to safe (the current state basically), but I can't see how I can do this. So, how can I do this?
Hi,
For the moment, unfortunately not at all, though it is something I want to do since a while and pretty high on my internal priority queue. How urgently do you need it? In the worst case, it would be easy to temporarily add a setter for the current state (we have a getter).
Regards, Christophe
Hi, for the current project i just need 2 small state machines, so i can hardcode them. But in the future it would really like to use MSM, at thats impossible for me as long as i can't safe them. So it's not very urgent, but if i could use it in 2 month, it would be great.
Hi, No, it won't be said so easily that MSM forces its users to hardcode state machines ;-) I just put something together and committed (without guarantee ;-) ) into the trunk. I also added into libs/msm/doc/HTML an example (Serialize.cpp) where you can serialize a state machine and even optionally states themselves (using a do_serialize typedef). It's not tested thoroughly in the little time I spent on it tonight and there are a few things I need to think about more but I hope it'll help you. Please keep me informed about your experience with this brand new feature ;-) Regards, Christophe