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Chat box not showing any text. - Rezeyu - 15-04-2007
My chat box is jsut blank, pure black, and I'm not sure why.
I was doing things server side mostly, then a few client changes, and suddenly is expoded. It's odd becasue I didn't change anything in the social packets, or anything to do with praphics.
when I type, it blts the text fine, then I hit enter and nothing happens. None of the event messages do either, or the welcome mesages.
I tried redoing all the txtchat related subs with their originals, jsut in case I added something and didn't notice, but still nothing.
So basically, what are the subs/functions that control displaying the text into txtchat? Or maybe I killed my packets for it somehow, I'm not sure.
Anyone ever see this happen?
- Tony - 15-04-2007
What the fuck did you do to your source? o.o
- Rezeyu - 15-04-2007
I dunno!
I checked everything that I thought could maybe-hypothertically-kind of-possibly-attempt to change the chat, but everything is fine.
Everything was working fine, then I changed the following:
- Altered walking speed to adjust to player speed.
- Removed all running/shift crap since you can only walk.
- Completely redid the Level Up system.
- Minor optimization crap.
The odd thing is, at first I thought it was a social packet issue, except that I can still use /mapeditor and such and it brings up the respective menu, so I think I just killed the packet that displays text to the client.. Even chatting with the server doesn't show anything.
- LordBobafett - 15-04-2007
This same thing happened to me several years back with a blank source. Not sure what caused it, but I was still learning VB6 then and lost interest in the bug afterwards.
- Spodi - 15-04-2007
First step is to debug.print the contents of the text box (its a text box / rich text box, right?) to see if anything is in it. If so, check the forecolor and selcolor, or anything related to the forecolor (been a long time since I have used a textbox for much of anything). Maybe try adding a .refresh call to the textbox every frame, too, see if that does anything. No harm in trying.
- Rezeyu - 15-04-2007
I set the BG color to blue, and entered text prior to running it (Like a label)
The text stayed there, and no new text was added. So I must have molested a chat packet somewhere or something. Becasue the editor commands all work. I'm gonna go try and revert every chat related thing I can find in the server.
EDIT: I replaced both modText's with the vanilla versions, still nothing.
- Tony - 15-04-2007
hmm I might have had this problem before but I'm not sure though. I don't have VB6 on my computer since I reformatted not too long ago. But anyways, when you type in something for MyText and press enter does your text still stay there?
- Rezeyu - 15-04-2007
Fixed it!
human error ftw.
I somehow managed to lose my:
Code:
' ::::::::::::::::::::
' :: Social packets ::
' ::::::::::::::::::::
If (LCase(Parse(0)) = "saymsg") Or (LCase(Parse(0)) = "broadcastmsg") Or (LCase(Parse(0)) = "globalmsg") Or (LCase(Parse(0)) = "playermsg") Or (LCase(Parse(0)) = "mapmsg") Or (LCase(Parse(0)) = "adminmsg") Then
Call AddText(Parse(1), Val(Parse(2)))
Exit Sub
End IfBut I really don't remember touching it.. o.O
Sorry for wasting your time and such, thank you all though.
- Tony - 15-04-2007
You slut. GTFO!
- Rezeyu - 15-04-2007
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