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1. Add the following code right before the return statement in the state transformation method:

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   stateNode.outgoingEdges.addAll(state.outgoingTransitions.map[ t | transform(t) ])

2. Of course, we will have to add a transform method for transitions now:

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   private def KEdge transform(Transition trans) { val transEdge = trans.createEdge().associateWith(trans) return transEdge; }

3. Again, we need to tell KLighD how to render the label:

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   language java linenumbers true
   transEdge.addPolyline(2).addHeadArrowDecorator();

4. And the edge also needs a label that describes the transition:

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   // Add a label to the edge val label = KimlUtilKGraphUtil.createInitializedLabel(transEdge); val labelText = trans.trigger + " / " + trans.action + " " + trans.direction + " " + trans.newChar; label.configureCenterEdgeLabel(labelText, KlighdConstants.DEFAULT_FONT_SIZE, KlighdConstants.DEFAULT_FONT_NAME);

5. What is missing now is to set the edge target to the node that represents the target state. There's a problem here, though: we don't even know if the target state already had a node created for it. Thus, we need to make sure it has:

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   transEdge.target = transform(trans.targetState);

6. This, however, results in a different problem: if the target state already had a node created for it, we now create another node. What we would need the state transformation method to do would be to first check if a node has already been created for a given state, and, if so, return that instead of creating a new one. It turns out that Xtend already supports this pattern. Change the method's declaration and its first line to the following:

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   private def create stateNode : state.createNode() transform(State state) { stateNode.associateWith(state);

   Also, remove the return statement. Xtend now checks if we already created a node for the given state and, if not, execute the code in the method.

Start your program again, open your Turing machine file and add an outgoing transition (with pretty much arbitrary properties) to your Wilhelm Tell state. Change the  properties 'New Char' and 'Trigger' to arbirtary characters (but not 0, since that translates to the ASCII char null and will kill your Label).  Set the Apple state as the transition's target state. Save the model and fire up a KLighD view. It should look something like this:

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