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Issue 6.3

FEATURE

REALScience

Finite State Machines

Issue: 6.3 (March/April 2008)
Author: JC Cruz
Author Bio: JC is a freelance technical writer living in British Columbia. He writes for various publications, pokes around with Cocoa and REALbasic, and spends time with his nephew. He can be reached at: anarakisware@gmail.com
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In today's REALScience, we will study the concept of finite state machines. First, we will learn the basic workings of such a machine. Then, we will build one using the REALbasic Thread class. Finally, we will build a demo project that will put our machine through its phases.

Threads Revisited

Starting an application creates a process. A process gets it share of resources (disk, memory, network, etc) from its host system. It also remains active until it gets a quit signal from the user or a fatal error during its run.

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