I was under the impression you shouldn't use the singleton methods from CEGUI due to the static variables across the modules not being shared.  Check out the docs: http://crystalspace3d.org/docs/online/manual/cs_4.21.php#4.21

I believe I had a similar problem, if I am not mistaken, it was because libcal3d was in the wrong lib folder.  Now, I can't verify it right here, but I believe I had to make sym link from /usr/local/lib/libcal3d.so.11.0.0 to /usr/lib/libcal3d.so.11.0.0.  I think...It was a while ago

Yea, and I think most people use blender, so those ones have fewer problems (but still a few!). 

I second that.  I have always wondered why it didn't have a title, but I didn't pursue it.

Well, after a bit of messing, I think I got something that should work.  Here is the code I used for my own (you might want to change it ) if someone else is interested, but please, if I am doing something wrong, tell me.

Code:

void App::LoadPlanetData()
{
    csPrintf("Loading planet data...\n");
    csRef<iFile> file = vfs->Open("/puniverse/planet/planets.xml",VFS_FILE_READ);
    csRef<csTinyDocumentSystem> xml;
    xml.AttachNew(new csTinyDocumentSystem());
    csRef<iDocumentNode> root, planet;
    csRef<iDocumentNodeIterator> rooti, planeti;

   
    CS_ASSERT(xml != NULL);

    if(file.IsValid())
    {
        csRef<iDocument> doc = xml->CreateDocument();
       
        if(!doc->Parse(file))
        {
            root = doc->GetRoot();
            root = root->GetNode("planets");
            rooti = root->GetNodes();
           
            while(rooti->HasNext())
            {
                root = rooti->Next();
                if(!root)
                    break;
                csPrintf("Node: %s\n", root->GetValue());
                planeti = root->GetNodes();
                planet = root;
                while(planeti->HasNext())
                {
                    planet = planeti->Next();
                    csPrintf("Node value: %s\n", planet->GetContentsValue());
                } 
               
            }
        } else
            csPrintf("Could not parse file!\n");

    } else
        ReportError("Could not parse planets.xml file!");
}

I was wondering how I could parse an XML file using the iDocument interfaces.  In my attempts when I try to read the file can't iterate the nodes (I found a similar post like this, but not enough information).  Basically, I want to parse a file that has this structure:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<planets>
<planet>
<name>Sun</name>
<mass>1.99*10^30</mass>
<radius>695990000</radius>
<description>Center of the Sol System.</description>
</planet>
</planets>

and get each all the information for each <planet>.  Is there somewhere I could look to find a block of code to handle this, or could you show me?  Thanks.

Try emacs or vim.  Take a little to learn, but make you really productive.

Here are the flags:

Code:

CEGUI.AVAILABLE ?= "yes" ;
CEGUI.CFLAGS ?= "-I/usr/local/include/CEGUI" ;
CEGUI.LFLAGS ?= "-L/usr/local/lib -lCEGUIBase" ;

Here is the error before the fix:

Code:

./ceguitest: error while loading shared libraries: libCEGUIBase.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

And this was just with the ceguitest from CS, so flags are in the Jamfile in the apps/tests/ceguitest/ folder (I assume):

Code:

SubDir TOP apps tests ceguitest ;

if $(CEGUI.AVAILABLE) = "yes"
{
Description ceguitest : "CEGUI Test Application" ;
Application ceguitest :
  [ Wildcard *.h *.cpp ] ;
CFlags ceguitest : $(COMPILER.C++FLAGS.EXCEPTIONS.ENABLE) ;
LinkWith ceguitest : crystalspace ;
ExternalLibs ceguitest : CEGUI ;
}

So there would be a plane that always faces the user, extending out from the center of the sphere with transparency?  How could I make a circular plane?

Thanks.

When building the cegui source package from cegui.org, the default installation installs the libraries to /usr/local/lib/ and that works fine for building and linking, but when you actually try to run say, the ceguitest application, it can't find the libcegui libraries.  I just made symlinks from /usr/local/lib/libcegui* to /usr/lib/ and the application ran fine.

Thanks it compiles now!
About the libcegui, make installing the 0.4.1 source package with the prefix /usr/local is fine for everything, until you actually try to run the CS application.  I just made symlinks to all the /usr/local/lib/libCEGUI* to /usr/lib/ and it ran fine, but is this a bug in CEGUI or CS?

I am trying to use CEGUI in my application, but compiling the app fails to find header files.  I wonder why the test ceguitest app from crystal space compiled fine while my application, which uses many of the same things from the test can't find header files like "CEGUI.h."  I am using the same installation of CEGUI for both.
Am I doing something wrong?  I basically copied the CEGUI stuff from the tests seeing as I've never used CEGUI before. 
Any suggestions?  Thanks.

Here is the first part of the build output:

Code:

...found 37 target(s)...
...updating 3 target(s)...
C++ ./out/linuxx86/optimize/src/puniverse.o
In file included from src/puniverse.cpp:1:
src/pApp.h:5:19: CEGUI.h: No such file or directory
In file included from src/pApp.h:6,
                 from src/puniverse.cpp:1:
/home/max/files/cvs/CS/include/ivaria/icegui.h:27:19: CEGUI.h: No such file or directory
In file included from src/pApp.h:6,
                 from src/puniverse.cpp:1:
/home/max/files/cvs/CS/include/ivaria/icegui.h:49: error: ISO C++ forbids
   declaration of `CEGUI' with no type
/home/max/files/cvs/CS/include/ivaria/icegui.h:49: error: `CEGUI' declared as a
   `virtual' field
/home/max/files/cvs/CS/include/ivaria/icegui.h:49: error: parse error before `

But the test application in CS has the same includes and works fine...

I was wondering how I could achieve a glow effect around a sphere or other object?  I want a selected object appear selected by having it glow around the edges or radiate light or something to that effect.  How could I go about doing this?  Thanks.

This is old.  The celData reference had everything I needed.  Check out my mouselook post to see more genjix