Right now I have set up a simple chat box UI (made of 3 TaharezLook windows) that allows users to send messages to one another. However I find that when I start typing text, semi-random visual artifacts appear in the edit box. I say semi-random as I can reproduce the same artifact if I type out the exact same characters, however the type of artifacts seems quite varied.
I have found that I can get the artifacts in the ListBox go away if I turn off the background rendering, leaving only the text rendering. They come back the same when I unhide the background of course. I have not tried this 'method' for the EditBox.
There are no errors listed in my CEGUI.log. I have already tried messing with various fonts, text colors, and enabling/disabling the AutoRenderingSurface property.
This is the layout that I am using for my chat UI.
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<GUILayout >
<Window Type="TaharezLook/FrameWindow" Name="Console/Frame" >
<Property Name="Text" Value="Console" />
<Property Name="TitlebarFont" Value="calibri-10" />
<Property Name="UnifiedMaxSize" Value="{{1,0},{1,0}}" />
<Property Name="TitlebarEnabled" Value="True" />
<Property Name="UnifiedAreaRect" Value="{{0.208832,0},{0.650387,0},{0.80736,0},{0.998062,0}}" />
<Window Type="TaharezLook/Listbox" Name="Console/Frame/ConsoleText" >
<Property Name="Text" Value=""/>
<Property Name="UnifiedMaxSize" Value="{{1,0},{1,0}}" />
<Property Name="UnifiedAreaRect" Value="{{0.019238,0},{0.030633,0},{0.973721,0},{0.769186,0}}" />
<Property Name="InheritsAlpha" Value="False" />
<Property Name="BackgroundEnabled" Value="True" />
</Window>
<Window Type="TaharezLook/Editbox" Name="Console/Frame/Input" >
<Property Name="UnifiedMaxSize" Value="{{1,0},{1,0}}" />
<Property Name="UnifiedAreaRect" Value="{{0.019238,0},{0.772141,0},{0.973721,0},{0.980658,0}}" />
<Property Name="MaxTextLength" Value="140" />
</Window>
</Window>
</GUILayout>The essential section of my CEGUI.Log
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03/10/2012 17:14:34 (Std) ********************************************************************************
03/10/2012 17:14:34 (Std) ********************************************************************************
03/10/2012 17:14:34 (Std) * -------- START OF ESSENTIAL SECTION TO BE POSTED ON THE FORUM -------- *
03/10/2012 17:14:34 (Std) ********************************************************************************
03/10/2012 17:14:34 (Std) ---- Version 0.7.5 (Build: Sep 25 2012 Static Debug Microsoft Windows MSVC++ 10.0 32 bit) ----
03/10/2012 17:14:34 (Std) ---- Renderer module is: RXRenderer ----
03/10/2012 17:14:34 (Std) ---- XML Parser module is: CEGUI::TinyXMLParser - Official tinyXML based parser module for CEGUI ----
03/10/2012 17:14:34 (Std) ---- Image Codec module is: TGAImageCodec - Official TGA image codec ----
03/10/2012 17:14:34 (Std) ---- Scripting module is: None ----
03/10/2012 17:14:34 (Std) ********************************************************************************
03/10/2012 17:14:34 (Std) * -------- END OF ESSENTIAL SECTION TO BE POSTED ON THE FORUM -------- *
03/10/2012 17:14:34 (Std) ********************************************************************************Here is where I initialize my console
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bool ConsoleWindow::Initialize()
{
mHideTimer = 0;
CEGUI::WindowManager *pWindowManager = CEGUI::WindowManager::getSingletonPtr();
mConsoleWindow = pWindowManager->loadWindowLayout("Console.layout");
if (!mConsoleWindow)
{
CEGUI::Logger::getSingleton().logEvent("Error: Unable to load the ConsoleWindow from .layout");
return false;
}
mConsoleWindow->setProperty("Alpha", "0.5");
mConsoleWindow->setPosition( CEGUI::UVector2(CEGUI::UDim(0.0f, 0), CEGUI::UDim(0.5f, 0)) );
mConsoleWindow->setSize(CEGUI::UVector2(CEGUI::UDim(0.3f, 0.0f), CEGUI::UDim(0.285f, 0.0f)) );
mConsoleWindow->setProperty("SizingEnabled", "false");
CEGUI::Listbox *output_window = static_cast<CEGUI::Listbox*>(mConsoleWindow->getChild(sTextboxName));
if( output_window )
{
output_window->setMousePassThroughEnabled(true);
output_window->getChild("Console/Frame/ConsoleText__auto_hscrollbar__")->setVisible(false);
}
CEGUI::System::getSingleton().getGUISheet()->addChildWindow(mConsoleWindow);
RegisterHandlers();
ConsoleVariable::Load();
return true;
}Ignore the red boxes below, I did that on purpose and they are not artifacts.
Here is an example of what I see after typing some text into the bottom EditBox and then hitting backspace a few times. Notice the 'afterimages' of the Caret.
This is an example of a reproducible ( on my machine ) artifact. The first 'a' did not show an artifact in the EditBox, while this second time of typing 'a' did.
Some artifacts showing up in the ListBox as well
I feel like this must be an implementation glitch on my end. I was hoping that perhaps someone had seen something like this before and could give me some advice.
Thanks!