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  1. Qt
  2. QTBUG-54908

Allow processing of unconsumed external events

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    • Suggestion
    • Resolution: Unresolved
    • P3: Somewhat important
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    • 5.7.0
    • Core: State Machine
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    Description

      A state machine based component should be able to catch external events or signals which trigger no transitions (i.e. no micro steps, empty macro step).

      For example, a signal-based command interface might demand a negative acknowledgement, if the state machine is not in the expected configuration.

      One way would be to add target-less transitions to the top state, so they can trigger the negative acknowledgement as a fallback. But if parallel children are present (orthogonal regions in XML jargon), all of them inherit the target-less transition and it doesn't work like this anymore.

      Using a combination of existing internal and private interfaces is also ruled out for obvious reasons:
      void QStateMachine::beginSelectTransitions(QEvent *event)
      void QStateMachinePrivate::processedPendingEvents(bool didChange)

      I suggest an appropriate method which can be adapted in a subclass, e.g.:
      QStateMachine::processUnconsumedEvent( QEvent *event )

      See also:
      http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_46_1/libs/statechart/doc/reference.html#unconsumed_event
      http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8327906/catching-discarded-events-in-boost-statechart-library

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            ulherman Ulf Hermann
            tscheck Torsten Scheck
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