Qt SCXML Media Player Example (Dynamic)

Media Player Example (Dynamic) demonstrates how to access data from a dynamically loaded ECMAScript data model.

The UI is created using Qt Widgets.

Running the Example

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Using the ECMAScript Data Model

We specify the data model as a value of the datamodel attribute of the <scxml> element in mediaplayer-common/mediaplayer.scxml:

<scxml
    xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/07/scxml"
    version="1.0"
    name="MediaPlayerStateMachine"
    initial="stopped"
    datamodel="ecmascript"
>
    <datamodel>
        <data id="media"/>
    </datamodel>

Dynamically Loading the State Machine

We link against the Qt SCXML module by adding the following line to the project build files.

With qmake to the mediaplayer-widgets-dynamic.pro

QT += widgets scxml

With cmake to the CMakeLists.txt

find_package(Qt6 REQUIRED COMPONENTS Core Gui Scxml Widgets)

target_link_libraries(mediaplayer-widgets-dynamic PUBLIC
    Qt6::Core
    Qt6::Gui
    Qt6::Scxml
    Qt6::Widgets
)

We dynamically create and instantiate the state machine in mediaplayer-wigdets-dynamic/mediaplayer-widgets-dynamic.cpp:

#include "../mediaplayer-common/mainwindow.h"

#include <QApplication>
#include <QScxmlStateMachine>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
    QApplication app(argc, argv);

    auto machine = QScxmlStateMachine::fromFile(
                QStringLiteral(":mediaplayer.scxml"));
    MainWindow mainWindow(machine);
    machine->setParent(&mainWindow);

    machine->start();
    mainWindow.show();
    return app.exec();
}

Connecting to States

The media player state machine will send out events when users tap a control and when playback starts or stops, as specified in the SCXML file:

    <state id="stopped">
        <transition event="tap" cond="isValidMedia()" target="playing"/>
    </state>

    <state id="playing">
        <onentry>
            <assign location="media" expr="_event.data.media"/>
            <send event="playbackStarted">
                <param name="media" expr="media"/>
            </send>
        </onentry>

        <onexit>
            <send event="playbackStopped">
                <param name="media" expr="media"/>
            </send>
        </onexit>

        <transition event="tap" cond="!isValidMedia() || media === _event.data.media" target="stopped"/>
        <transition event="tap" cond="isValidMedia() &amp;&amp; media !== _event.data.media" target="playing"/>
    </state>

To be notified when a state machine sends out an event, we connect to the corresponding signals:

    stateMachine->connectToEvent("playbackStarted", this, &MainWindow::started);
    stateMachine->connectToEvent("playbackStopped", this, &MainWindow::stopped);

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