From: Andreas Huber (ahd6974-spamboostorgtrap_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-03-24 12:14:02


Hi Manuel

> I would really like to use a priority_scheduler<> in the statechart
> library.
> It is on the todo list of boost 1.34.1. How about its development status?
> Is it in development

No, and it's unlikely that I'll get to it it in time for 1.36 (unless of
course I'll get more requests for it, yours was the first one).

> or hast someone his own homebrew solution for a finite
> state machine with a priority scheduled event dispatcher?

I guess some Statechart users must have rolled their own priority_scheduler,
but I haven't heard about them.

> At the moment i'm using the nice ordered Multi_Index_Container to
> implement
> a priority queue. Ideas?

Implementing a priority_scheduler should not be difficult. You'll find some
information about the responsibilities of the fifo_scheduler components
here:

<http://www.boost.org/libs/statechart/doc/rationale.html#AsynchronousStateMachines>,
see Customization

HTH & Regards,

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Andreas Huber
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