Journal task

[gus]

Sorry i'm late, but no, i'm not using any data from openmw for now (it display a hard coded text for testing purpose), so now that I think of it, it should not come from localization (unless there is some localization stuff in MyGUI).

[Zini]

Guess I will have to have a look at it myself eventually. Getting a stack trace here is kinda difficult, because it is not a regular crash, just an exception thrown and caught in main. I must admit I never before had to debug such a case on gdb. Will have to read up on it first. Since I am already swamped with tasks, this will probably take a while.

[gus]

That's OK for me. I also don't have much time (i'm on hollyday) so it doesn't matters if it takes some time.
I will post later a few things to explain how the journal GUI works to save you some time.

[gus]

Okay,so could you try to comment out line 87 and 88 of journalwindow.cpp?

If it still doesn't work, can you try to comment line 71 to 84 too?

[Zini]

That is not going to do as any good, since the exception is thrown before the JournalWindow constructor is entered. Probably somewhere in a base-class or a member variable's constructor.

Edit: Okay. I think I found the problem. You are specifying a file named openmw_journal_layout.xml. This file does not exist in my build directory.

[gus]

My bad, I forgot to add the layout.xml in CMake . Corrected now.

Edit: by the way, what is the right way to access MWWorld::Environement from my journalwindow code?

[Zini]

Corrected now.

Confirmed. Works now. Text is not properly aligned to the book and the book is not properly aligned/scaled on the screen, but a good start.

by the way, what is the right way to access MWWorld::Environement from my journalwindow code?

I don't think you are supposed to access the Environment from a Window. What do you need the Environment for?

Edit: Stupid question. At least you want to play a sound when turning the pages. Currently not supported. But you can add a function

MWWorld::Environment& getEnvironment()

to the WindowManager (the WindowManager has a reference to the Environment). Then you can fetch a reference to the WindowManager through the Window base class.

[gus]

Confirmed. Works now. Text is not properly aligned to the book and the book is not properly aligned/scaled on the screen, but a good start.

Yup, i can't get the layout.xml to work as I want, so don't focus on the visual aspect for the moment.

I don't think you are supposed to access the Environment from a Window. What do you need the Environment for?

Well, i want to access the player journal (from journalWindow), which is stored in Environment I believe.

[Zini]

Well, i want to access the player journal (from journalWindow), which is stored in Environment I believe.

And that too, yes. See my edit.

[gus]

Thanks