Text in particle editor

#1 Might be a Mac thing - I've never had a problem viewing emitter names after loading an effect under Windows

#2 Sorry Jeremy, you are right. I don't know how this one slipped by us, but I'll try to get a fix out real soon. I'm afraid with how busy we are here until GDC that it might not happen until afterward, but I'll try to figure it out and do a new release before then!

#3 No worries, Josh...just glad to know it wasn't me.

Thanks again!

#4 The fix is to change dStrupr and dStrlwr in macCarbStrings.cc to:

char* dStrupr(const char *inStr)
{
char* str = inStr;

while (*str)
{
*str = toupper(*str);
str++;
}

return inStr;
}


char* dStrlwr(const char *inStr)
{
char* str = inStr;

while (*str)
{
*str = tolower(*str);
str++;
}
return inStr;
}

#5 Glad you posted this Jeremy, I thought it was just me too:P And thanks Corey for the fix, works very nicely.

#6 Thanks for your help everyone. :)

- Melv.

#7 Thanks Corey!

#8 I just noticed this issue with the particle editor emitters not showing-up and found this thread (glad it was not just me!)

Anyway, this is *not* a huge deal since we'll be getting a new T2D release soon (if my interpretation of other threads is correct) but I figured I'd try to update my OS X version with the code provided above to fix the issue.

So, I opened the pbproj and did both a Release and Debug build in Xcode -- all worked fine.

Then, I edited the 2 functions as indicated above (commenting-out the existing code) and did a rebuild. This time, I get the same warnings, but one error saying "missing symbols" however no other information is provided. Double clicking on the error simply opens-up the pb folder on the disk.

For fun, I commented the new functions and un-commented the old ones and things built just fine once again.

I'm a relative noob at using Xcode and C++ in general, but I am familiar with editing code/etc. and I don't think I screwed anything up. So, are there any ideas out there on what might be happening? The error message is certainly less than useful.

Anyway, like I said, this is NOT a big deal or a complaint in any way - just something I figured I'd toy-around with to gain some experience, so if there aren't any ideas on what's failing or if it's too much work, I'll just wait for the next release (or create effects on the Windows machine).

Thanks!
Mike

#9 I had the same problem a while ago. My memory's a bit fuzzy, but I think the cause is a disagreement between the 'const'ness of the functions' prototypes and their definitions.

Try removing const from "const char *inStr" in both functions.

#10 Awesome, Matt! That did fix the issue and I built successfully.

And, thanks to Corey for the fix!

Thanks!
Mike

#11 Hmmm.... on Tiger here and the Particle Editor list is not displaying names. Here is my code:

char* dStrupr( char *inStr)
{
char* str = inStr;

while (*str)
{
*str = toupper(*str);
str++;
}
return inStr;
}

char* dStrlwr( char *inStr)
{
char* str = inStr;

while (*str)
{
*str = tolower(*str);
str++;
}
return inStr;
}