The KDAB State Machine Editor Library is a framework that can be used to help develop full-featured State Machine Editing graphical user interfaces and tools. Output from such applications is in metacode or QML that can then be used in larger Qt or QtQuick projects.
For a full description of the KDAB State Machine Editor Library, read our wiki on GitHub, https://github.com/KDAB/KDStateMachineEditor/wiki.
The main feature of KDStateMachineEditor is visualizing and editing state charts.
Note: A proof-of-concept application called kdstatemachineditor executable is part of this repository
and will be built automatically. It can be run from the bin/ directory once the project built.
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Internal API to create state charts
- Consisting of states and transitions
- Also supports history/initial states (in short: everything the SCXML spec provides)
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QML scene which shows the state charts
- Custom items for drawing transitions using bezier curves
- Editing: Drag & drop support, move support, etc.
- Editing: Undo stack implementation, redo/undo actions for all operations
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Abstract interface to layout state charts
- GraphViz's cgraph is one of the implemented layouting backends (part of this repository)
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Import/Export capabilities
- Allows to import/export .scxml files
- Allows to export .svg files
- Allows to export .qml files (in QtQml.StateMachine syntax)
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Allows to inspect running state machine instances
- Both supports visualizing
QStateMachineorQScxmlStateMachine - Can inspect remote applications (i.e. processes living on another machine)
- Using QtRemoteObjects for communication
- Requires the target application to be "instrumented", cf. the [qsmdebugger](examples/qsmdebugger/] example
- Both supports visualizing
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Theming support (cf. screenshots above) -- currently available are:
- DarkTheme
- SystemTheme
KDStateMachineEditor's main user is KDAB's GammaRay, a tool
for introspecting Qt application. GammaRay has the capability to display the state chart of
a QStateMachine embedded in the application, making it possible to inspect the live
configuration changes of the state machine, as well as zooming into child state (machines).
Make sure you have cmake, ninja, compiler, Qt, etc in PATH.
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -G Ninja -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/path/where/to/install ..
cmake --build
cmake --build . --target installPass -DBUILD_QT6=ON for a Qt 6 build.
./bin/kdstatemachineeditorSee INSTALL.txt for more information.
The editor part of the library still is somewhat "rough"; not a lot of development time has been spent on streamlining this feature.
KDAB will happily accept external contributions, but substantial contributions require a signed Copyright Assignment Agreement.
Contact info@kdab.com for more information about the Copyright Assignment Agreement.
Please submit your contributions or issue reports from our GitHub space at https://github.com/KDAB/KDStateMachineEditor
The KDAB State Machine Editor Library is © Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB (KDAB), and is licensed according to the terms of the LGPL 2.1.
Commercial licensing terms are available in the included file LicenseRef-KDAB-KDStateMachineEditor.txt.
For terms of redistribution, refer to the corresponding license agreement.
This State Machine Editor Library is supported and maintained by Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB (KDAB).
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