I'm currently rewriting the entire options dialogue of Ep2 in order to
be able to add my own options. One of the fields I want to add is the
number of decals. So I made a call to cvar->FindVar("r_decals") in my
optionspanel.cpp. Since I'll be needing the ConVar multiple times, I
assigned it to a ConVar pointer via
ConVar *cvDecals = (ConVar*) cvar->FindVar("r_decals");
The same is done in c_baseplayer.cpp for example, i.e. ConVar *pVar =
(ConVar *)cvar->FindVar( "snd_soundmixer" ). The code compiles
absolutely fine. However, if I start the mod and go to the console, it
says "ConVarRef cl_forwardspeed doesn't point to an existing ConVar".
Trying to open my panel I get a "unknown command modoptions". When I
want to start a singleplayer game I get the DT_Basegrenade error
discussed here multiple times, complaining about missing decoders. And,
to top it all off, when I close the game via exit or quit through the
console or the quit dialogue, the game crashes with this listed as
faulty module: Fault Module Name: client.dll_unloaded.
The strange thing is though that if I don't assign the return value of
FindVar() and simply do a
Q_strcpy( m_cDecals, cvar->FindVar("r_decals")->GetString() );
m_pDecals->SetText( m_cDecals );
everything works fine and the value of r_decals gets printed to the
appropriate text field. However, it's not possible to change the value
of the ConVar. For example, if I do a
cvar->FindVar("r_decals")->SetValue(1024) before I copy the string to
m_cDecals, the value will still be 2048 as defined in my config.cf.
This is all very confusing since I can't find the striking difference
between the example in c_baseplayer I mentioned and my panel.
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