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    Finite State Machine : the basics

    MellsMells Guru
    edited July 2012 in General questions
    Hi community,

    I'm trying to implement a basic finite state machine in my app.
    My question is about the logic behind this system.

    What would be the logical way to do between :
    local firefly = Firefly.new("firefly1")
local stateLightsOn = State.new("LIGHTS_ON")
firefly:setState(stateLightsOn)
 
-- then Choice 1
firefly:onEnterState(stateLightsOn)
 
-- or Choice 2
stateLightsOn:onEnter(firefly)
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    • atilimatilim Maintainer
      I would choose
      firefly:setState(stateLightsOn)
      Also your states can be simply strings instead of objects:
      firefly:setState("LIGHTS_ON")
      (it's a matter of taste)
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    • TeranthTeranth Member
      @atilim agree entirely it's very much a personal choice as to how you want your state machine to work. :) (And yeah strings are the way to go, or at least they have been for me heh)
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    • bowerandybowerandy Guru
      @Mels, have you tried any of the FSM implementations suggested on the Lua wiki. I came across this one that looks interesting:

      http://lua-users.org/wiki/FiniteStateMachine

      Actually, there is a modified version of the same thing on GitHub that might be better:

      https://github.com/cornelisse/LuaFSM

      As it mentions in the text, the beauty of this scheme (courtesy of Lua's table mechanism) is that the states and events can be of any type, including tables and functions if required.

      Best regards

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    • TeranthTeranth Member
      @bowerandy great share, I couldn't remember where I had seen a LUA FSM example, you got it :)
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    • MellsMells Guru
      Thank you very much, very helpful.
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