[Remy Lebeau]

I have created a RPG style HUD for war3source that uses keyhint to display. Up until today it had been working just fine...

As of the latest CSS update, it now flickers in and out. Does anyone know if the update will have changed how keyhinttext works? I'm not seeing any errors, just that the HUD is now flickering.

I have it updating on a 1 second timer, so it could be that CSS now displays the keyhint for less time by default... I guess I could simply change time timer frequency to 0.1 seconds, see what that does, but it seems like a shame to take a performance hit :S

You can see the source code for the HUD here: http://war3source.com/index.php?topic=1894.0

Any help much appreciated!

edit: tried setting the update timer to 0.1 seconds, the display still flickers (starts to fade out and comes back in again)

[Remy Lebeau]

I'm thinking that the default duration for a KeyHintText Message in CSS may have changed... Anyone know how to check / set that? The smlib code to print the actual message is:

stock bool:Client_PrintKeyHintText(client, const String:format[], any:...)
{
    new Handle:userMessage = StartMessageOne("KeyHintText", client);
    
    if (userMessage == INVALID_HANDLE) {
        return false;
    }

    decl String:buffer[254];

    SetGlobalTransTarget(client);
    VFormat(buffer, sizeof(buffer), format, 3);

    BfWriteByte(userMessage, 1); 
    BfWriteString(userMessage, buffer); 

    EndMessage();
    
    return true;
}

edit: another weird symptom: when you're dead keyhinttext messages work fine, it's only when you're alive that they flicker!

edit 2: if you want to see this error in action, the HUD is currently running on this server: http://www.gametracker.com/server_in...9.80.127:27015

[shavit]

some cool guy told me we can use ShowSyncHudText now in CS:S

[Remy Lebeau]

Originally Posted by shavit some cool guy told me we can use ShowSyncHudText now in CS:S

Can you reference where you saw that? I'm happy to put the time into converting it, but would (For now) prefer to know what is going on with keyhinttext...

[Remy Lebeau]

Discussion continues in this thread: https://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=182929

[Bacardi]

@original post, keyhinttext.
I tested and not seeing any flickering. Maybe in your game
or some plugin perhaps annoying that usermessage

[shavit]

Seems like you get flickers because there are 2 keyhinttexting plugins, happened to me when I used both "showkeys" and "speclist".