Text not displaying

[DarkHorizon]

Hello all,

I have been successful in getting CEGUI to load inside my Ogre3D-based game, however I am having some problems getting text to display correctly. Furthermore, there seems to be a problem with the way the titlebar-area is rendered.

For example, this is a screenshot of the in-game engine:


This is a screenshot of the same GUI elements drawn inside CELayoutEditor (where they were designed):


I am using the layout found in the CEGUI SDK (e.g. ${CEGUI_PATH}/datafiles), loaded by the Ogre3D renderer. Ogre3D is version 1.4.5, and CEGUI is the version which comes in the SDK, 0.5.

CEGUI is loaded using the following code:

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m_GUIRenderer = new CEGUI::OgreCEGUIRenderer(window, Ogre::RENDER_QUEUE_OVERLAY, false, 3000, sceneMgr);
m_GUISystem = new CEGUI::System(m_GUIRenderer);
CEGUI::SchemeManager::getSingleton().loadScheme((CEGUI::utf8*)"TaharezLook.scheme");
m_GUISystem->setDefaultMouseCursor((CEGUI::utf8*)"TaharezLook", (CEGUI::utf8*)"MouseArrow");
CEGUI::Window* sheet = CEGUI::WindowManager::getSingleton().loadWindowLayout((CEGUI::utf8*)"my.layout");
m_GUISystem->setGUISheet(sheet);

I haven't come across any forum posts related to missing text, so any help is appreciated.

Cheers

[scriptkid]

Hi and welcome

The reason could be that something is off with the text colours or alpha settings which cause the texts to look invisible, while they are there. I assume you don't get exceptions or font errors in the log, do you?

The titlebars look weird indeed! Can you post your layout here?

Thanks.

[CrazyEddie]

Hi,

Due to the strangeness of the titlebars, I believe I may know what the issue is.

I'd like to suggest that maybe the scheme you've loaded does not bring in a font, and since you've not loaded one explicitly, there is no font loaded nor a default set and hence no text?

[scriptkid]

Yeah that could be the case indeed. Because the editor loads fonts by itself, so there is a small difference between tools and cegui itself.

[Rackle]

WidgetGalore shows a concrete example loading a font: FontManager::getSingleton().createFont("Commonwealth-10.font");

[DarkHorizon]

Thank you, dank u wel, et merci! That indeed was the problem.

I added the following line:

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CEGUI::FontManager::getSingleton().createFont("DejaVuSans-10.font");

And the font I had used in the GUI elements now renders correctly.

[Pompei2]

Thank you, dank u wel, et merci! That indeed was the problem.

you are from belgium ?

[DarkHorizon]

Nah, I grew up in Quebec

[Rackle]

Beaucoup de québécois sont multilingues. Note the lower-case Q.

Many Quebecers are multilingual.

[Pompei2]

Ye, i know, but he also knew how to say it in dutch, and in belgium you learn dutch, french and english, that's why i asked