On 29.3.2012. 10:55, Stephan Menzel wrote:
Everyone,
I did just get around to give the MSM a first shot and I have say I am impressed at the neat design, the ease of use, "understandability", tutorial ... exceptional work. Really great and it helped me a great deal so far. So thanks a bunch for this teriffic addition to boost. That's the kind of stuff I love boost for.
I know how you feel. MSM is an awesome library. Unfortunately compilers tend to disagree :)
There is one question however that puzzles me. How can / do I prevent state transistions when a transition function throws?
MSM has two kinds of transition functions, actions and guards. What you are describing above is an action, and it is not designed to prevent the transition. You should use a guard. Guards have a boolean return value. For an example see good_disk_format() function in the SimpleTutorial.cpp in the MSM docs. HTH