For a detailed introductino to the Statechart editor refer to sce-tutorial.

Migrating Statecharts to use the Code Generator

If you created a Statechart before the Statechart Editor Code Generator (ScECG) was introduced, you need to apply some changes to your Statechart. By hand. Sorry.

Locate CMakeLists.txt of your Statechart Group.

For each header add a [StateName].generated.h line. Add the armarx package tool template line exactly once as shown below. Example:

set(HEADERS
MyGroupRemoteStateOfferer.h
./MyState.h
#@TEMPLATE_LINE@@COMPONENT_PATH@/@COMPONENT_NAME@.h
./MyState.generated.h                                            # <-- add this for each state
#@TEMPLATE_LINE@@COMPONENT_PATH@/@COMPONENT_NAME@.generated.h    # <- add this once
)

For each state: Replace the include in [StateName].h:

///////// LOCATE:
#include <ArmarXCore/statechart/xmlstates/XMLState.h>

///////// REPLACE BY:
#include "[StateName].generated.h"

For each state: Change the inheritance, go to [StateName].h and change the class. Look for the class header. Change the class, so it inherits only from [StateName]GeneratedBase:

namespace armarx
{
    namespace MyGroup
    {
    ///////// LOCATE:
        class MyState :
            virtual public XMLStateTemplate < MyState > ,
        public XMLStateFactoryBase
    {

    ///////// REPLACE BY:
        class MyState :
            public [StateName]GeneratedBase<[StateName]>
    {

also, remove the getName definition from the class header in [StateName].h:
```
/// REMOVE:
            static std::string GetName();
```

Modify init list of each states constructor in [StateName].cpp

///////// LOCATE:
MyState::MyState(XMLStateConstructorParams stateData) :
    XMLStateTemplate<MyState>(stateData)
{

///////// REPLACE BY:
[StateName]::[StateName](XMLStateConstructorParams stateData) :
    XMLStateTemplate<[StateName]>(stateData),
    [StateName]GeneratedBase<[StateName]>(stateData)
{

Remove this from every [StateName].cpp (this has moved to the generated header)

# remove this from every [StateName].cpp
// DO NOT EDIT NEXT FUNCTION
std::string MyState::GetName()
{
    return "MyState";
}

Open the Statechart Group in the Statechart Editor and click save. This will generate all the .generated.h files.