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When I use minetest with the latest version of Irrlicht, the text in text boxes is the same or a very similar color to the background. For example, there is text in all of these boxes:

If you look closely you can see the text in all but the password box (it's there but is completely invisible).

Same problem here, 64 bit version. Also, typing / in-game select the / character making command useless.

Menche wrote:When I use minetest with the latest version of Irrlicht, the text in text boxes is the same or a very similar color to the background. For example, there is text in all of these boxes: (IMAGE)
If you look closely you can see the text in all but the password box (it's there but is completely invisible).

The skin colours where changed in Irrlicht 1.8 as well as some new additions added you will need to edit the Minetest source if you want the input fields to display correctly in Irrlicht 1.8.

If you open main.cpp in the Minetest source and goto line 1351 which should look like:


After this line add the following:


So the final code should look like:


The compile and the inputs should be coloured again and easily readable, I've set the inputs to a green colour but you can change them to whatever colour you want by changing the SColor() value.

trukoil wrote:Same problem here, 64 bit version. Also, typing / in-game select the / character making command useless.

With regards to the forward slash being highlighted after the quick command interface opens, this bug happens in the current minetest master too, its not a bug in Irrlicht 1.8.

You can just re-add the forward slash to run the command though or use the normal chat (T by default) or even the console (F10) its probably quicker than having to deselect the forward slash in the quick command input first, I will have a look at what causes this bug later if I get chance.

Hope the above helped.

EDIT: Also just another quick note, Minetest is officially still being developed with Irrlicht 1.7.x I think the reason being is some distros don't yet have easy access to Irrlicht 1.8 so until that happens you probably won't see the main master getting any changes needed for Irrlicht 1.8.

So until then if you ensist on using Irrlicht 1.8 like me ^_^ (instead of 1.7.3) you will need to make sure these 1.8 specific lines are not removed.

Thanks, I'll try this out. I'm on Irrlicht svn. I had mentioned this colour issue in IRC before (but it never bothered me too much).

EDIT: Thanks, green looks really good =]

@leo_rockway haha no worries, yeah I liked it too, just thought I would give people a heads up as it might not be to everyones liking hehe >_< glad it helped.