Hi, Some more thoughts to share... Some applications have to do just one task at the time. But those that don't, take a lot of overhead to create. Jal has some basic task switching features but I never found a way to benefit from this. I create my 'tasks' by implementing them as finit state machines. This works great, but takes a lot of work to implement - and quite some part of this is the kind of work tools should be doing.
A fsm is not that difficult. It basicly consists of a collection of states. Each state has an on-entry code block, a repeatable code block and one or more possible transitions - a condition plus a new state. Add the option of stateless transitions (if x occurs, go to state y, regardless of the state you are in) and you are done. Although I used to think this would not be too dificult (and thus usefull for less-experienced users), I did not yet find a neat way to describe/present fsm in a clear and parsable way. Someone pointed me to http://www.state-machine.com/ but this also looks a bit too complicated for a beginner. Maybe some of you guys has some idea. Joep --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jallib" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jallib?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
