Understanding the new graphical editor for SCXML

Qt introduced SCXML as a new feature in 5.7, which serves as a notation format for building a sophisticated state machine for your application. A state machine is a mechanism for which a program or a widget of a program changes its properties based on the current state you defined for it. We have seen how a Push Button changes its appearance when the mouse hovers on it or when pressed by the user. These are different states of Push Button and its behavior is determined and executed by the state machine.

With SCXML, you can define a more sophisticated state machine for your program and save it in the human-readable SCXML file format for Qt to parse and process. Qt will then generate C++ classes ...

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