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Building a project

Complex state machines may consists of many invoked state machines inside and nested data or script sources as separate files. Such projects may be inconvinient during the deployment because you should collect all files and check that all links to external files are valid. So we offer the system of building all external files to one source.

Setting build configuration

Select menu Tools->Project Options

Build types

pbtSaveAll - saves all modifications before build

pbtSaveFlat - saves all nested state machines and data sources into single file

pbtPostBuild - executes post-build script

Post-build script

You are able to define CMD script wich will be executed after every build operation if the flag pbtPostBuild is set.

Double click on ProjectPostBuild item and script editor will be displayed.

Execution of project building

Press Ctrl+B or select menu File->Build

CMD output

You may review script execution summary in CMD Output tab

Example

Source files for build:

state_machine_project_build.scxml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<scxml datamodel="lua" name="ScxmlShape1" version="1.0" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/07/scxml">
	<datamodel>
		<data id="VarTable" src="dataVarTable.lua"/>
	</datamodel>
	<state id="StateShape1">
		<onentry>
			<foreach array="VarTable" index="index" item="item">
				<log expr="string.format('[%s] %s', index, item)" label="INFO"/>
			</foreach>
		</onentry>
		<transition event="Step" target="StateShape2"/>
	</state>
	<state id="StateShape2">
		<invoke autoforward="true" id="ID_CHILD" src="include_state_machine.scxml"/>
		<transition event="done.invoke.ID_CHILD" target="FinalShape1"/>
	</state>
	<final id="FinalShape1"/>
</scxml>

include_state_machine.scxml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<scxml name="ScxmlChild" version="1.0" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/07/scxml">
	<state id="StateChild">
		<transition event="Step" target="FinalChild"/>
	</state>
	<final id="FinalChild"/>
</scxml>

dataVarTable.lua

{
    "Item 1",
    "Item 2",
    "Item 3"    
}

Build Output

state_machine_project_build.flat.scxml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<scxml datamodel="lua" name="ScxmlShape1" version="1.0" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/07/scxml">
	<datamodel>
		<data id="VarTable">{
    'Item 1',
    'Item 2',
    'Item 3'    
}
		</data>
	</datamodel>
	<state id="StateShape1">
		<onentry>
			<foreach array="VarTable" index="index" item="item">
				<log expr="string.format('[%s] %s', index, item)" label="INFO"/>
			</foreach>
		</onentry>
		<transition event="Step" target="StateShape2"/>
	</state>
	<state id="StateShape2">
		<invoke autoforward="true" id="ID_CHILD">
			<content>
				<scxml name="ScxmlChild" version="1.0" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/07/scxml">
					<state id="StateChild">
						<transition event="Step" target="FinalChild"/>
					</state>
					<final id="FinalChild"/>
				</scxml>
			</content>
		</invoke>
		<transition event="done.invoke.ID_CHILD" target="FinalShape1"/>
	</state>
	<final id="FinalShape1"/>
</scxml>

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