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Good evening guys,
I am sorry for the noob question but I can't find it answered anywhere else on the web. I'm getting the follwoing error loading a layout (from CEGUI.log).

27/07/2010 00:06:25 (Error) CEGUI::UnknownObjectException in file c:\ogre1_7\cegui_v0-7\cegui\src\ceguiwindowfactorymanager.cpp(180) : WindowFactoryManager::getFactory - A WindowFactory object, an alias, or mapping for 'Falagard/FrameWindow' Window objects is not registered with the system.
27/07/2010 00:06:25 (Error) CEGUI::InvalidRequestException in file c:\ogre1_7\cegui_v0-7\cegui\src\ceguiguilayout_xmlhandler.cpp(233) : GUILayout_xmlHandler::startElement - layout loading has been aborted since no WindowFactory is available for 'TaharezLook/FrameWindow' objects.
27/07/2010 00:06:25 (Error) WindowManager::loadWindowLayout - loading of layout from file 'katana.layout' failed.

Here is the layout:


I have TaharezLook/Button and TaharezLook/FrameWindow defined in a scheme file but where is the targettype="Falagard/FrameWindow" (and button) suposed to be defined?

Here is the full log

and callstack


Thanks for your atention.

Your scheme appears not to specify any WindowRenderer objects. Also, the TargetType strings typically begin with CEGUI/ - so for example "CEGUI/FrameWindow" and not "Falagard/FrameWindow". You would use "Falagard/FrameWindow" as the WindowRenderer value.

The TargetTypes are the concrete classes within CEGUIBase that contain the widget logic. The WindowRenderer types are classes that handle rendering of windows, these typically come from the CEGUIFalagardWRBase module are are prefixed with Falagard/.

This is covered somewhat in the docs, there is mention of the scheme mappings here: http://www.cegui.org.uk/docs/current/fa ... al_schemes and here http://www.cegui.org.uk/docs/current/xm ... ardmapping

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I think I found what the problem may be. Following a tutorial aimed at CEGUI 0.4 so the scheme file provided was out of date and missing the renderer attribute on the falagardmapping element.

switched
<FalagardMapping WindowType="TaharezLook/Button" TargetType="Falagard/Button" LookNFeel="TaharezLook/Button" />

to
<FalagardMapping WindowType="TaharezLook/Button" TargetType="CEGUI/PushButton" Renderer="Falagard/Button" LookNFeel="TaharezLook/Button" />

but the same error remains. What am I missing?

From the CEGUI.log you can read
27/07/2010 09:17:51 (Std) Created WindowRendererFactory for 'Falagard/FrameWindow' WindowRenderers.
27/07/2010 09:17:51 (Std) WindowRendererFactory 'Falagard/FrameWindow' added. (02270C28)
then
27/07/2010 09:17:51 (Std) Creating falagard mapping for type 'TaharezLook/FrameWindow' using base type 'Falagard/FrameWindow', window renderer '' Look'N'Feel 'TaharezLook/FrameWindow' and RenderEffect ''. (0018CBF8)
but then in the end
27/07/2010 09:17:52 (Error) CEGUI::UnknownObjectException in file c:\ogre1_7\cegui_v0-7\cegui\src\ceguiwindowfactorymanager.cpp(180) : WindowFactoryManager::getFactory - A WindowFactory object, an alias, or mapping for 'Falagard/FrameWindow' Window objects is not registered with the system.

:S I'll keep messing about and reading the docs but some help would be appreciated. Thanks

After carefull inspection I realised that my scheme file wasn't being updated on my zip file so the Renderer attributes weren't added to the xml nor were the TargetTypes with the CEGUI/ prefix. So I made sure that the scheme was correctly updated on the zip and sure enough the changes were acknoledged by the program.
From the log:

As you can see the first three lines indicate that the FrameWindow was created (HURRAY!) but now "mapping for '' Window objects" is not registered yadda yadda yadda !!!!! Say what now?!?!? Is there some kind of default behaviour I have to consider?

[Edit]
Ok, so I was being lazy and instead of updating all the falagardmapping elements in the .scheme file I only updated the two that had FrameWindow and Button and so this last error was because of all the other elements that were lacking the TargetType attribute.
So the program now runs and due to the HUNDREDS of errors that I got due to out of date xml files I'm a bit more knowledgeable (is that a word?) on how CEGUI works and more so on how to debug problems related to CEGUI.
Thanks for the help
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Cool. Though one does wonder why you did not use the datafiles that accompany the 0.7.x release That being said, it's good to have people learning the intricacies of some of these files, since it gives a better understanding of what CEGUI is doing and how it works

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