I've just spent 4 hours debugging this and after making it work i still have no clue why i was facing this behaviour with this function. Here's a description of the problem: I made a new Hud element to display hints about my mod. Everything goes along okay, the element displays and fades nicely after 5 seconds like i want it to, now comes the part where i add the text in it!
And that's where the trouble starts. Basically, i have an Array of Wide Chars to hold the Localized string that i find. My message Function receives the number of the hint, converts this all to a nice token string in ASCII like so: "#Cal_Hints_1" and then looks it up and fills my array with the string!
So far so good, the array is filled, then i call Paint(). And every time it would not show up! Here's the snippet from Paint(): // Get our scheme and font information vgui::HScheme scheme = vgui::scheme()->GetScheme( "ClientScheme" ); vgui::HFont hFont = vgui::scheme()->GetIScheme(scheme)->GetFont( "Default" );
// Draw our text surface()->DrawSetTextFont( hFont ); // set the font surface()->DrawSetTextColor( 255, 255, 255, flAlpha ); // white surface()->DrawSetTextPos( 0, 0 ); // x,y position
int length = wcslen(m_pWText); surface()->DrawPrintText( m_pWText , length );
In debug when i have a spy on the array all looks fine, except the array doesn't get printed. This is what i have in Reset(): memset(m_pWText,0,sizeof(m_pWText));
And if i comment that out, miraculously, the text gets displayed.
That is the only thing i changed, i moved it to the constructor and to the message function and that's it, and now it all works fine!
Please someone tell me i'm not mad and DrawPrintText somehow calls Reset without my knowledge...?
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