Simutrans SVN revision 5180 seems to have an settings.xml problem - if my diagnosis is correct the file is written plain text, but tried to be read zlib format. On my system it just locks up on reading.
Not sure if it's my installation or a general problem. Just in case it's a real problem, I'm reporting it.
Did you start experimental in between? This sometimes lead to clashes.
And about zipping: Simutrans should detect on the fly whether a file is zipped or not. I had no troubles for me, thus I am not sure if this problem is on your side.
I don't have experimental. If it works on your system, it must be a problem with my library setup. But I have deleted everything right now since it seemed senseless to continue. I can restore from a backup if I want to, but the replies in the other htread were discouraging. If Markohs really includes a whole new UI system, my changes will be obsolete in a while. So I better spend my time elsewhere. Back to painting and pak48.Excentrique. Will be enough to keep me busy anyways. Maybe I'll keep posting change request, but it doesn't look like I made many friends among the developers with those, so maybe I'll not until encouraged, and try to remedy weaknesses as much as I can as a pure pak set maintainer.
Maybe you played with simversion.h ?
Anyway, deleting settings.xml should solve the issue.
It did, but only until a new one was written. Actually, after some more inverstigation it turned out that the problem was a wrong libz.dll in my path (somehow incompatible, but only so much to cause a freeze, no crash).
So, green light to the CEGUI project?
I had already started, anyway... ;)
Well, just do it. I'll find other things to do. You made the 3D variant, so you sure can do a good UI too :)