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I'd like this state machine to be completely data driven because it will massively simplify testing and experimenting with different behaviours (ie. I won't have to re-compile and produce new executables to try out a simple change).

Instead of hard-coding all the states, events, transitions, etc., I would like to read all those in from a config file (text, csv, xml, whatever).

Boost.Statechart deliberately does not support dynamic configurability. The rationale can be found here: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_38_0/libs/statechart/doc/rationale.html#Dyna... Regards, -- Andreas Huber When replying by private email, please remove the words spam and trap from the address shown in the header.