Newbie Question regarding loading schemes and XML

[wingdongdoodle]

i have up to this point managed to get the gui working, and i must say i really like it. Ive been workign witht he layout editor as well, and its also very usefull, since i hate writing GUI elements in code.

however, here are perhaps a few bugs? idiotic mistakes?

at this point in the code:

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SchemeManager::getSingleton().loadScheme((utf8*)"..\\datafiles\\schemes\\TaharezLook.scheme");


(taken from simpleApp - demo 4 with openGL)

i get a strange exception in free.c, it says user exception... not to sure whats happening there, its more aggravating then anything, but something i can ignore.

however, with loading XML layouts using:

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Window* rootWindow = CEGUI::WindowManager::getSingleton().loadWindowLayout("debugConsole.layout");


an error is thrown everytime. i have made sure that the file is where i specify, but i have no clue where i am going wrong. heres my XML file:

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<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<GUILayout>
   <Window Type="DefaultWindow" Name="debugConsole">
      <Window Type="TaharezLook/FrameWindow" Name="console">
         <Property Name="AbsoluteHeight" Value="243.000000" />
         <Property Name="AbsolutePosition" Value="x:1.000000 y:0.000000" />
         <Property Name="AbsoluteRect" Value="l:1.000000 t:0.000000 r:800.000000 b:243.000000" />
         <Property Name="AbsoluteSize" Value="w:799.000000 h:243.000000" />
         <Property Name="AbsoluteWidth" Value="799.000000" />
         <Property Name="AbsoluteXPosition" Value="1.000000" />
         <Property Name="Alpha" Value="0.700000" />
         <Property Name="AlwaysOnTop" Value="True" />
         <Property Name="DragMovingEnabled" Value="False" />
         <Property Name="Height" Value="0.405000" />
         <Property Name="Position" Value="x:0.001250 y:0.000000" />
         <Property Name="Rect" Value="l:0.001250 t:0.000000 r:1.000001 b:0.405000" />
         <Property Name="RelativeHeight" Value="0.405000" />
         <Property Name="RelativePosition" Value="x:0.001250 y:0.000000" />
         <Property Name="RelativeRect" Value="l:0.001250 t:0.000000 r:1.000001 b:0.405000" />
         <Property Name="RelativeSize" Value="w:0.998751 h:0.405000" />
         <Property Name="RelativeWidth" Value="0.998751" />
         <Property Name="RelativeXPosition" Value="0.001250" />
         <Property Name="Size" Value="w:0.998751 h:0.405000" />
         <Property Name="Text" Value="debugConsole" />
         <Property Name="Width" Value="0.998751" />
         <Property Name="XPosition" Value="0.001250" />
         <Window Type="TaharezLook/MultiLineEditbox" Name="consoleOutput">
            <Property Name="AbsoluteHeight" Value="180.000000" />
            <Property Name="AbsolutePosition" Value="x:7.000000 y:29.000000" />
            <Property Name="AbsoluteRect" Value="l:7.000000 t:29.000000 r:788.000000 b:209.000000" />
            <Property Name="AbsoluteSize" Value="w:781.000000 h:180.000000" />
            <Property Name="AbsoluteWidth" Value="781.000000" />
            <Property Name="AbsoluteXPosition" Value="7.000000" />
            <Property Name="AbsoluteYPosition" Value="29.000000" />
            <Property Name="Height" Value="0.738333" />
            <Property Name="Position" Value="x:0.008750 y:0.120000" />
            <Property Name="ReadOnly" Value="True" />
            <Property Name="Rect" Value="l:0.008750 t:0.120000 r:0.986250 b:0.858333" />
            <Property Name="RelativeHeight" Value="0.738333" />
            <Property Name="RelativePosition" Value="x:0.008750 y:0.120000" />
            <Property Name="RelativeRect" Value="l:0.008750 t:0.120000 r:0.986250 b:0.858333" />
            <Property Name="RelativeSize" Value="w:0.977500 h:0.738333" />
            <Property Name="RelativeWidth" Value="0.977500" />
            <Property Name="RelativeXPosition" Value="0.008750" />
            <Property Name="RelativeYPosition" Value="0.120000" />
            <Property Name="Size" Value="w:0.977500 h:0.738333" />
            <Property Name="Text" Value="] Debug console using CE GUI
" />
            <Property Name="Width" Value="0.977500" />
            <Property Name="XPosition" Value="0.008750" />
            <Property Name="YPosition" Value="0.120000" />
            </Window>
         <Window Type="TaharezLook/Editbox" Name="consoleInput">
            <Property Name="AbsoluteHeight" Value="30.000000" />
            <Property Name="AbsolutePosition" Value="x:9.000000 y:209.000000" />
            <Property Name="AbsoluteRect" Value="l:9.000000 t:209.000000 r:669.000000 b:239.000000" />
            <Property Name="AbsoluteSize" Value="w:660.000000 h:30.000000" />
            <Property Name="AbsoluteWidth" Value="660.000000" />
            <Property Name="AbsoluteXPosition" Value="9.000000" />
            <Property Name="AbsoluteYPosition" Value="209.000000" />
            <Property Name="Height" Value="0.120000" />
            <Property Name="Position" Value="x:0.011250 y:0.861667" />
            <Property Name="Rect" Value="l:0.011250 t:0.861667 r:0.837500 b:0.981667" />
            <Property Name="RelativeHeight" Value="0.120000" />
            <Property Name="RelativePosition" Value="x:0.011250 y:0.861667" />
            <Property Name="RelativeRect" Value="l:0.011250 t:0.861667 r:0.837500 b:0.981667" />
            <Property Name="RelativeSize" Value="w:0.826250 h:0.120000" />
            <Property Name="RelativeWidth" Value="0.826250" />
            <Property Name="RelativeXPosition" Value="0.011250" />
            <Property Name="RelativeYPosition" Value="0.861667" />
            <Property Name="Size" Value="w:0.826250 h:0.120000" />
            <Property Name="Width" Value="0.826250" />
            <Property Name="XPosition" Value="0.011250" />
            <Property Name="YPosition" Value="0.861667" />
            </Window>
         <Window Type="TaharezLook/Button" Name="inputSendButton">
            <Property Name="AbsoluteHeight" Value="29.000000" />
            <Property Name="AbsolutePosition" Value="x:672.000000 y:210.000000" />
            <Property Name="AbsoluteRect" Value="l:672.000000 t:210.000000 r:788.000000 b:239.000000" />
            <Property Name="AbsoluteSize" Value="w:116.000000 h:29.000000" />
            <Property Name="AbsoluteWidth" Value="116.000000" />
            <Property Name="AbsoluteXPosition" Value="672.000000" />
            <Property Name="AbsoluteYPosition" Value="210.000000" />
            <Property Name="Height" Value="0.116667" />
            <Property Name="Position" Value="x:0.841250 y:0.865000" />
            <Property Name="Rect" Value="l:0.841250 t:0.865000 r:0.986250 b:0.981666" />
            <Property Name="RelativeHeight" Value="0.116667" />
            <Property Name="RelativePosition" Value="x:0.841250 y:0.865000" />
            <Property Name="RelativeRect" Value="l:0.841250 t:0.865000 r:0.986250 b:0.981666" />
            <Property Name="RelativeSize" Value="w:0.145000 h:0.116667" />
            <Property Name="RelativeWidth" Value="0.145000" />
            <Property Name="RelativeXPosition" Value="0.841250" />
            <Property Name="RelativeYPosition" Value="0.865000" />
            <Property Name="Size" Value="w:0.145000 h:0.116667" />
            <Property Name="Text" Value="Enter" />
            <Property Name="Width" Value="0.145000" />
            <Property Name="XPosition" Value="0.841250" />
            <Property Name="YPosition" Value="0.865000" />
            </Window>
         </Window>
      </Window>
</GUILayout>




any suggestions would be appreciated

[CrazyEddie]

What is the exception being thrown (or alternatively, are there any errors listed in CEGUI.log)?

Thanks,

CE.

[Guest]

I thought a "DefaultGUISheet" was required as a root window.
Am i wrong?

--
Chris

[CrazyEddie]

ChrisKang wrote:
I thought a "DefaultGUISheet" was required as a root window.

"DefaultWindow" is an alias for "DeafultGUISheet" While it is common to use these as the root window, the system does not require it; you could just as easily use a radio button as the root (though you probably wouldn't want to

CE.

[wingdongdoodle]

ok, i have an interesting story. My compuer died when i installed DX9 SDK, so i had to system restore, without thinking i lost a lot of work i had done with code. SO i re-downloaded CEGUI, dependencies, etc. and discovered i had accidently downloaded 0.1.0 first (thats the one i had working).

im using SDL + OGL + CEGUI, so i dont have a demo app to test with, so i have been having trouble discovering what was goign wrong. It appears that for some reason, no matter what path i load my layout/scheme/font from, the XSD files were required to be in the workign directory of my executable, and not the path of the file i tried to load. I figured otu eveything that was goign wrong

sorry for asking these poitnless questions, since there isnt any documentation or demos im jsut kind of learning these things on my own. If you would like, after i hae had a chance to play around with the code some more, id be more then willing to create an OGL+CEGUI or SDL+OGL+CEGUI basic application tutorial. Thanks for atempting to help at least

[CrazyEddie]

Hey that's cool.

The thing with the XSDs was an unintentional breaking change. In fact the original behavior was unintentional as well The situation now, in CVS-HEAD, is that the original behavior (of looking in two places for the XSD) has been restored. Having said this, that does not mean I recommend updating to CVS-HEAD (unless you already did ).

The offer of a tutorial is very welcome, I'd be happy to get this, as tutorials and non API reference documentation is the main thing missing at the moment
CE