StateMachineEvent giving me an error

[ryanprice]

I don't know much about State machines, this is my first attempt at working with them. Your classes looked clean, so thought I would try them out.

when I ran the code after creating a simple stateMachine I was getting an error saying it could not convert StateMachineEvent into StateChangedEvent

so in the StateMachineEvent.as I changed

public class StateMachineEvent extends Event

to

public class StateMachineEvent extends StateChangeEvent
and I don't get an error anymore.

I am using Flex SDK 3.4.1.

Do you have any feedback about what I am doing wrong, or if what I did was really needed. I have only touched the surface of your code, as I said, I am a beginner of these concepts, and mid-level with as3. Thanks for sharing this code, looking forward to making it a foundation in my game.

[cassiozen]

Hi Ryan,

It's good to hear you're using StateMachines. Your feedback is appreciated.

Could you please show me the code you used to create de State Machines, so I can take a look and fix any other possible bugs?

[ryanprice]

Sure, here is an example:

   var zombieSM:StateMachine = new StateMachine();
        zombieSM.addState("birthing",{ enter: onBirthingEnter});
        zombieSM.addState("normal",{ enter: onNormalEnter, from:"birthing,food_normal_transition"});
            zombieSM.addState("food_seeking",{ enter: onFoodSeekingEnter, from:"normal"});
            zombieSM.addState("food_normal_transition",{ enter: onFoodToNormalTransitionEnter, from:"food_seeking"});
            zombieSM.addState("dead",{ enter: onDeadEnter, from:"normal,food_seeking,food_normal_transition"});

            zombieSM.initialState = 'birthing';

I am now starting to use this class all over my app, it's helping me keep things organized and think more clearly. I have still barely scratched the surface of this class, I am now looking into the transition stuff and the hierarchical ability.

[cassiozen]

Anything new for you?

[ryanprice]

Check out the live game at http://apps.facebook.com/zombie_pets/