Qt SCXML Media Player QML Example (Static)

Media Player QML Example (Static) demonstrates how to access data from an ECMAScript data model that is compiled into a C++ class.

The UI is created using Qt Quick.

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>

Compiling the State Machine

We link against the Qt SCXML module by adding the following lines to the example's build files.

.pro when using qmake:

QT += widgets scxml

We then specify the state machine to compile:

STATECHARTS = ../mediaplayer-common/mediaplayer.scxml

CMakeLists.txt when using cmake:

find_package(Qt6 COMPONENTS Core Gui Widgets Scxml)

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

We then specify the state machine to compile:

qt6_add_statecharts(mediaplayer-widgets-static
    ../mediaplayer-common/mediaplayer.scxml
)

The statechart directives STATECHARTS or qt6_add_statecharts invoke the Qt SCXML Compiler, qscxmlc, which is run automatically to generate a header and a source file, which are then added appropriately for compilation.

Instantiating the State Machine

We instantiate the generated MediaPlayerStateMachine class in mediaplayer-qml-static.cpp:

#include "mediaplayer.h"

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    QGuiApplication app(argc, argv);

    qmlRegisterType<MediaPlayerStateMachine>("MediaPlayerStateMachine", 1, 0, "MediaPlayerStateMachine");

    QQmlApplicationEngine engine;
    engine.load(QUrl(QStringLiteral("qrc:///mediaplayer-qml-static.qml")));
    if (engine.rootObjects().isEmpty())
        return -1;

    return app.exec();
}

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