Changing Font at runtime

[Tripwire]

HI,

I'm having a problem with changing the font at runtime. I have a bold orange font and a white light font which need to be changed at runtime on a click event. What i have now:

1. public var orangeBoldFont : UIFont;
2. public var whiteLightFont : UITFont;
3.  
4. private var tabFont : UILabel;
5.  
6. function Awake()
7. {
8.     tabFont = GameObject.Find("Tab01").GetComponent(UILabel);
9.     tabFont.font = whiteLightFont;
10. }
11.  
12. function OnClick()
13. {
14.     tabFont.font = OrangeBoldFont;
15. }
16.  

Now this works but only for a moment and it changes back to the original whiteLightFont

[ArenMook]

GameObject.Find is a really bad idea in general, and is not guaranteed to work in Awake. Start() is a better option if you must use it, but I recommend making a public var myLabel : UILabel instead. You can then set it in the inspector via drag & drop.

That said, I don't see why it would change back to white font. Perhaps you're changing it elsewhere?

[Tripwire]

GameObject.Find is a really bad idea in general, and is not guaranteed to work in Awake. Start() is a better option if you must use it, but I recommend making a public var myLabel : UILabel instead. You can then set it in the inspector via drag & drop.

That said, I don't see why it would change back to white font. Perhaps you're changing it elsewhere?

Thx for your reply! I fixed the problem, made a typo somewhere ^^. No i have another question, i've always used Awake() to find stuff and never had problems with it. Why is it bad to use GameObject.Find() in Awake() function? I thought Awake and Start where both called once but Awake is called first?

[ArenMook]

Awake is called right after the object's constructor, and can be called prior to you setting up the parent and other stuff.

Consider this:

1. GameObject go = new GameObject("Test");
2. CustomScript cs = go.AddComponent<CustomScript>();
3. cs.targetLabel = myLabel;

The CustomScript's Awake() function will be called prior to cs.targetLabel being set.