ijoglekar / tinyfsm

A simple C++ finite state machine library

TinyFSM

TinyFSM is a simple finite state machine library for C++, designed for optimal performance and low memory footprint. This makes it ideal for real-time operating systems. The concept is very simple, allowing the programmer to fully understand what is happening behind the scenes. It provides a straightforward way of mapping your state machine charts into source code.

TinyFSM basically wraps event dispatching into method calls, making event dispatching equally fast to calling (or even inlining) a function. Even in the worst case, dispatching leads to nothing more than a single vtable lookup and function call!

Key Features:

• Entry/exit actions
• Event actions
• Transition functions
• Transition conditions
• Event payload (classes)
• Inheritance of states and action functions

TinyFSM benefits from the C++11 template metaprogramming features like variadic templates, and does not depend on RTTI, exceptions or any external library.

Official home page: http://www.digint.ch/tinyfsm

Current version: 0.10

DOCUMENTATION

You can find the main documentation in the doc/ directory of the TinyFSM project. The latest version is also available [online] (http://www.digint.ch/tinyfsm/doc/introduction.html).

INSTALLATION

TinyFSM is a header-only library, no special installation steps are needed. Just point your compiler to the "include" directory.

DEVELOPMENT

The source code for TinyFSM is managed using Git. Check out the source repository like this:

git clone git://dev.tty0.ch/tinyfsm.git

If you would like to contribute, you might want to visit the [TinyFSM project page on GitHub] (http://github.com/digint/tinyfsm).

SUPPORT

If you need further information or find bugs, please contact the author.

AUTHOR

Axel Burri [email protected]

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2012 Axel Burri. All rights reserved.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.