Weird mouse pointer problem

[Sanderfox]

Hi,

I installed PS yesterday with success, but when I\'m at the screen to make my character and I move my mouse pointer, the image keeps behind, so finally the entire screen gets full of mouse pointers.

For a screenshot see here:

http://www.sanderfox.nl/Screenshot-PlaneShift-Crystal-Blue.png


Anyone an idea how to solve this ?

[beerke]

Guess you got the old art content. Try to update your client with the updater

[Sanderfox]

I did that after the first time I noticed, but it didn\'t help. I\'ll try to update again...

[Sanderfox]

The updater said all files were up2date, so I pulled PS from cvs again in a new directory, renamed the old art folder to art2 and copied over the new art dir (that\'s still empty ofcourse). I\'m now getting the art with the updater. I hope this\'ll work...

[Sanderfox]

Nope, it didn\'t work. I now have the latest art, but still I have the problem.

Anyone any other ideas ?

[Seytra]

It looks like your setup got mixed up with an old version of MB. The background on your screenshot is the MB login screen... You are having a path problem somewhere, maybe it\'s using an old compile of CS?
My recommendation: delete every version of PS that is on your system, along with all compiled folders, and even the sources, for there might be configuration files that have incorrect info. (You can of course back them up to some other, unrelated folder or zip them, if you wish to keep them).
Clean the registry by using regedit, find all entries that relate to CEL, Crystal Space, and of course PS itself, if any. Furthermore, search the registry for all folders you have installed / compiled / copied PS to, and remove all of these registry entries.
This should give you a fairly clean registry.
Open a command window and look at the output of \"set\", it may also have some paths that point to CS, CEL or PS. Remove these parts from c:\\autoexec.bat
Now download the sources to a fifferent folder and compile them there.
Make sure that your compiler (Visual Studio?) doesn\'t have any project info saved. To be sure, create an entirely new project and look through all project settings and paths.

This is how I would go about it, and see what it does.

Note that you may do serious damage to your system by messing with the registry, so be careful.

[Sanderfox]

I\'m using linux, so I don\'t have a registry

I compiled _everything_ from cvs yesterday, so I think I have very up2date sources, but in other words: I should just remove PS, Cel, etc. and than compile it again from scratch ?

[Seytra]

Yes. Also, there may be some symlinks in the /lib and /usr/lib folders (and whereever your distro might put them), and / or old compiled versions with different names. The objective is to remove any trace of MB and previous CB instances before compiling. There may also be some environment variables set that point to old locations.
The fact that the MB login screen is there is proof that there is at least one old instance of MB (or parts of it) around somewhere.

[Sanderfox]

I used this guide:

http://laanx.fragnetics.com/gentoo.html


So everything is very local and only There, and I never even had MB installed :S

[Seytra]

No MB ever? In this case, I\'m out of ideas ATM.
The only thing I can suggest is trying the Linux installer to see if it will change something, but otherwise... sorry.

[beerke]

You didn\'t add the art mirror to the updater. Do that and update again.  Read the guide how to add it

[Sanderfox]

I think I did, but I\'ll check...

[Sanderfox]

Oops, sorry, I forgot
I updated again, but still: all files are up to date.
So....what should I do ?

[Seytra]

I should slap you for that.
Anyway, check whether the art subfolder is approx. 210 MB in size. If it isn\'t, there still is something wrong with the updater setup.

[Sanderfox]

I was 220.1 mb, but I copied over a clean art folder, so I\'m re-updating the art again, maybe it will go right this time...