[Dr. Greg House]

Hi guys.

Just trying to write some sort of training-plugin and noticed something odd. I'm using the hinttext-command to display a clock and right from the first appearance of the hintpanel it doesn't show up the text. So you just see the background which keeps changing it's length because of the varying text, but no text at all. I have to press ESC and get into an options-menupanel and then back in the game and only after that it works, although this might change the hinttext-color to gold instead of white.

Anyone got a clue on this?



Thx in advance!

[BrianGriffin]

Is your hint starting with a "["? I know that menus starting with a [ aren't displayed on L4D2.

https://bugs.alliedmods.net/show_bug.cgi?id=4883

[Dr. Greg House]

Nope.
It doesn't even show up correctly when I only use "TEST" as the hintmessage.

PrintHintTextToAll("%s", "TEST");

Updated MM and SM to the latest developement branch now, no difference.

Some more Code:

public Action:Timer_UpdateTimeInfo(Handle:timer)
{
    UpdateTimeInfo();
    
    return Plugin_Continue;
}

public UpdateTimeInfo()
{
    deltaT=GetEngineTime()-starttime;
    
    //FormatTimeInfo(deltaT, timeinfo, sizeof(timeinfo));
    
    PrintHintTextToAll("%s", "TEST");
}



new String:deltaTString[20];
new pointcharpos;

public FormatTimeInfo(Float:deltaT, String:result[], bufferlength)
{
    FormatTime(result, bufferlength, "%M:%S", RoundToFloor(deltaT));
    FloatToString(deltaT, deltaTString, sizeof(deltaTString));
    
    pointcharpos=FindCharInString(deltaTString, '.');
    
    result[5]=':';
    result[6]=deltaTString[pointcharpos+1];
    result[7]=deltaTString[pointcharpos+2];
    result[8]='\0';
}

As I said, I have to press ESC first and go into an optionsmenu, after that it shows the string over the hintbackground as well. This is not client-related since my friend experienced the same problem when he joined the server running this plugin.

However if I set the interval to 10.0 seconds, this works right from the beginning. Interesting is, that this can't be a "hintupdate"-issue, because hint created by the first tick isn't be drawn correctly as well.
I'm trying to find the threshold-interval now, already tested 0.1, 0.2 (none of them worked), and 10.0 (worked).

[Visual77]

Whatever you're doing, it should be
PrintHintTextToAll("%s", TEST); where test is either a convar, a value, float, or something else.

and not PrintHintTextToAll("%s", "TEST");

And if it's only a message:
PrintHintTextToAll("message");

[Dr. Greg House]

Since I just wanted to print "TEST" and not the value of a variable, the code is fine, regardless of it is a good style of coding. Anyway, this isn't affecting the bugs behavior.

EDIT:
So far I can say that any interval below 2.0 seconds doesn't work.

Initialization of the timer:

timeinfoTimer=CreateTimer(2.0, Timer_UpdateTimeInfo, _, TIMER_REPEAT);

Would be nice to hear a sm-developer's opinion about this.