Maratis.exe portability problem [SOLVED]

Thank you,
I'll take a look, but I never had this bug,
can you trace it in debug mode ?

Oh well, I found a funny bug fix: just disable the whole MaratisUI::addValue() method and everything works and doesn't crash anymore:

void MaratisUI::addValue(MGuiWindow * window, const char * valueName, M_VAR_TYPE varType, void * pointer, MVector2 * position)
{
    return;    // funny bug fix!
    float size = 16;
    float ySpace = 15;

Surely this function must do something useful, what could it be?

EDIT: Ok, it seems to be a useful function after all, because it's needed for example for changing texts. But now it should be quite easy to find out on which line it crashes.

Last edited by Lumooja (2012-03-11 14:41:11)

The new MString.cpp didn't help. But adding a MessageBoxA() or printf() to access the varType parameter fixed the crashing:

void MaratisUI::addValue(MGuiWindow * window, const char * valueName, M_VAR_TYPE varType, void * pointer, MVector2 * position)
{
    float size = 16;
    float ySpace = 15;
    MVector4 color(1, 1, 1, 1);
    MVector4 valueColor(1.0f, 0.95f, 0.45f, 0.85f); // 1.0 0.97 0.33
    MVector4 variableColor(0.66f, 0.76f, 0.87f, 1.0f);

    printf("%d",varType);   // wierd bug fix!

    if(varType == M_VAR_BOOL)

There must be somekind of memory leak going on in the user32.dll or somewhere, when these kind of wierd fixes stabilize it.
Everything works fine now, and this hack doesn't take any performance either, because it's only called 4 times when "add camera", "add light", etc... is pressed in Editor.

Last edited by Lumooja (2012-03-11 22:50:45)

I only know that even a simple: if(varType == M_VAR_BOOL) crashed it. It was like varType was not readable at all, and caused a segment fault. The crash occured always after a call to some function of user32.dll, so I thought there was going on something instable. Of course the real leak might be somewhere else, but when code crashes which shouldn't crash, it's very hard to debug it. I've seen this before also in BlendELF, and there also a printf("") fixed the crash.