Intermitant client crash, in the engine apparently

[ChromeAngel]

i'm using a game message to communicate between one of my custom weapons and an indicator on the HUD. Occasionally this appears to cause the client to crash, somewhere in engine.dll .

In the weapon:

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void CEX_Bolter::BroadcastMode(bool IsRapid)
{
#ifdef CLIENT_DLL
   IGameEvent * pEvt = gameeventmanager->CreateEvent( "ex_bolter_mode" );
   
   if ( pEvt )
   {
      pEvt->SetBool( "IsRapid", IsRapid );
      gameeventmanager->FireEvent( pEvt );
   }
#endif
};

In the HUD element:

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void C_EX_HumanHUD::FireGameEvent( IGameEvent *event )
{
   if ( FStrEq( event->GetName(), "ex_bolter_mode" ))
   {
      if( event->GetBool( "IsRapid" ) )
      {
         pModeIndicatorImage->SetImage( "ex/imp_rapid_mode.vmt" );
      } else {
         pModeIndicatorImage->SetImage( "ex/imp_basic_mode.vmt" );
      }
   }
};

90% of the time it work, just occasionally it crashed the client back to the desktop. Can anyone see what i'm doing wrong here?

[zombie@computer]

begin with 'if (event)' in FireGameEvent? I'm guessing it's possible to get there with a nulled event, but its just guessing. Can't you debug the crash?

[ChromeAngel]

It's really intermittent, so i'm having to work from the MDMP. According to the call stack it gets as far as the line

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gameeventmanager->FireEvent( pEvt );

in BroadcastMode then delves into engine.DLL where it crashes.

[ChromeAngel]

Fixed. In the end I got rid of the event and had the weapon find the HUD element in BroadcastMode and tell it directly. It's less flexible, but it works.

[zombie@computer]

Took you a while