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29 \example statemachine/factorial
30 \title Factorial States Example
32 \brief The Factorial States example shows how to use \l{The State Machine
33 Framework} to calculate the factorial of an integer.
35 The statechart for calculating the factorial looks as follows:
37 \img factorial-example.png
39 \caption This is a caption
42 In other words, the state machine calculates the factorial of 6 and prints
45 \snippet examples/statemachine/factorial/main.cpp 0
47 The Factorial class is used to hold the data of the computation, \c x and
48 \c fac. It also provides a signal that's emitted whenever the value of \c
51 \snippet examples/statemachine/factorial/main.cpp 1
53 The FactorialLoopTransition class implements the guard (\c x > 1) and
54 calculations (\c fac = \c x * \c fac; \c x = \c x - 1) of the factorial
57 \snippet examples/statemachine/factorial/main.cpp 2
59 The FactorialDoneTransition class implements the guard (\c x <= 1) that
60 terminates the factorial computation. It also prints the final result to
63 \snippet examples/statemachine/factorial/main.cpp 3
65 The application's main() function first creates the application object, a
66 Factorial object and a state machine.
68 \snippet examples/statemachine/factorial/main.cpp 4
70 The \c compute state is created, and the initial values of \c x and \c fac
71 are defined. A FactorialLoopTransition object is created and added to the
74 \snippet examples/statemachine/factorial/main.cpp 5
76 A final state, \c done, is created, and a FactorialDoneTransition object
77 is created with \c done as its target state. The transition is then added
78 to the \c compute state.
80 \snippet examples/statemachine/factorial/main.cpp 6
82 The machine's initial state is set to be the \c compute state. We connect
83 the QStateMachine::finished() signal to the QCoreApplication::quit() slot,
84 so the application will quit when the state machine's work is
85 done. Finally, the state machine is started, and the application's event