FBEditor Help - Editing EC States

Editing EC States

Adding a State to an ECC

You can add a state to an ECC by using the New Action item of the ECC workspace's popup menu (the menu that you get by clicking the right mouse button on an empty area of the workspace).

Deleting a State

You can delete a state from an ECC by using the Delete option of its popup menu or by using the Alt+Del keychord. Since this will also delete all transitions to or from the state, a dialog box will pop up to give you a chance to cancel this action.

The EC State Dialog

You can use this dialog both for adding a new state to an ECC or for editing an existing state. You invoke it by clicking the "Add State" popup menu item of an ECC, or by double-clicking an existing EC state or clicking the "Edit" item of its popup menu..

You can close the dialog without making any changes to the state by pressing the Cancel button or the in the upper right corner of the dialog. If you press the OK button (or the Enter key while entering data), and no errors are detected, the requested changes (if any) will be made and the dialog will close. If an error is detected when you press the OK button or the Enter key, the dialog does not close and an error message appears at the top line of the dialog, for instance:

Making a State the Initial State

You can make a state the initial state of the ECC by:

selecting the state in the ECC;
pressing the Up button;
repeating the above two steps until the state becomes the first in the list of EC states and its outline changes to a double line to indicate that it is the initial state.