You approach to state is very interesting. I’m putting it into practice in my application. Only, I got confused by the attribute accessing subtleties that I had to face:

(article not saved yet)

(…)

Debug.write(”saveArticleContent: ” + articleContent);
if (this.getAttribute(”articlestatus”)==”new”) {
Debug.write(”We should prompt the user with the name of the new article”);
storycontrols.setAttribute(”mystate”, “createarticlestate”);
}

Note that this.mystate in the state constraints didn’t work. I understood that “this” inside the constraint was pointing to the same thing as storycontrols, but that’s apparently not the way the compiler understands it.

Similarly I don’t understand why I couldn’t simply assign the “mystate” attribute using the “=” operator in the “saveArticleContent” method (which is a member of storyControls).

Any help is really appreciated!