[SOLVED]Buttons, Labels, etc. not rendering when in Debug

[frigopie]

Hi!

I am using VS2010 and cegui 0.7.2, I haven't had problems until now.
VS configuration is ok, include path, lib path and *_d.lib to use, also *_d.dll are on their place.
I have a problem visualizing this elements when they are created dynamically and in Debug mode. If I run the Release configuration everything is OK. If I load a window from a layout file, all is ok in Release and Debug mode. It only fails when I create the elements dynamically and use them in Debug configuration. The root window is a DefaultWindow, but if I set it to FrameWindow, I can see the window borders but not the elements created inside, also I can see the CEGUI cursor.
Here is the code I use to create the elements:

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//The window
Window *pantalla;

try{
      pantalla = (DefaultWindow*)WindowManager::getSingleton().createWindow("DefaultWindow");
      pantalla->setSize(UVector2(UDim(0,1280), UDim(0,720)));
      pantalla->setAlpha(1.0);
      pantalla->setPosition(UVector2(UDim(0,0), UDim(0,0)));
}catch(CEGUI::InvalidRequestException &e){
      printf("%s\n",e.getMessage().c_str());
      Error("Error starting PantallaGUI \n%s", e.getMessage().c_str());
}


//The button
PushButton* guiButton;

try{
   guiButton = (PushButton*)WindowManager::getSingleton().createWindow(CEGUI_THEME"/Button");
   UVector2 v;
   v.d_x.d_offset =  200;
   v.d_y.d_offset =  200;
   guiButton->setPosition(v);
   guiButton->setSize(UVector2(UDim(0,320), UDim(0,40)));
   guiButton->setText("Hi");
   guiButton->setProperty("HorzLabelFormatting", "RightAligned");
   pantalla->addChildWindow(guiButton);
   guiButton->show();
   guiButton->activate();

   guiButton->subscribeEvent(PushButton::EventMouseEnters, Event::Subscriber(&WdgButtonFlash::onMouseOver, this));
   guiButton->subscribeEvent(PushButton::EventMouseLeaves, Event::Subscriber(&WdgButtonFlash::onMouseLeaves, this));
}catch(CEGUI::InvalidRequestException &e){
      Error("Error starting PantallaGUI \n%s", e.getMessage().c_str());
}


Anyone have an idea of what's happening?

Thanks.

[Kulik]

This could be a number of things.

Apps that behave differently in debug mode usually rely on uninitialised variables, check that. You could also be mixing up debug and release msvc runtimes which causes nasty problems.

Either way, I suspect a memory issue or library mismatch.

[frigopie]

it is strange, because even in release mode, sometimes it fails. If I set a position to an element, even if is the same position it has, the element will not be visible. It has to be a cegui bug, i will try to examine the code...

[frigopie]

SOLVED

The problem is that you must initialize UVector2 with values for both scale and offset (set 0.0 to scale if you are working with offset). Looks like in Release mode they are set to 0.0 by default (by the compiler) but not in Debug mode, so initialization is required (I was used to my vector class, where they are set to 0.0 in the constructor).