The problem of state information transmission over a discrete memoryless channel
with action-dependent independent and identically distributed states is
investigated in this work. Given the message to be communicated, the transmitter
chooses an action sequence which affects the channel states; the channel input
sequence is dependent on the channel states. The capacity--distortion function,
where channel inputs have both strictly-causal and causal state dependence, is
characterized.  Our results subsume several prior works: communication over
channels with state and a subset of the action-dependent capacity work.  We also
consider the case of optimal transmitter probing of channel states for reliable
state transmission and communication.