Controlling NGUI lables from one script.

[greigy]

The following is a script that I am in the process of creating for the purposes of a count down timer. For the sake of alignment and effects, I have created three labels as individual parts, but am seemingly unable to update the seconds. By disabling (commenting out) the minutes, the seconds are updated. - I have got rid of the milsec calcs to make sure they aren't influencing anything.

So what I need is a way to make all three update - or my mistake pointed out...

1. using UnityEngine;
2. using System.Collections;
3. using System;
4.  
5. public class EHBoardTimer : MonoBehaviour {
6.  
7.         public UILabel theMilliSeccondsCounter;
8.         public UILabel theSeccondsCounter;
9.         public UILabel theMinutesCounter;
10.         public float levelTime = 150.0f;
11.  
12.         private float startTime = 0.0f;
13.         private float theDeltaTime = 0.0f;
14.  
15.         private float theMinutes = 0.0f;
16.         private float theSecconds = 0.0f;
17.         private float theMillisecconds = 0.0f;
18.  
19.         // Use this for initialization
20.         void Start ()
21.         {
22.                 startTime = Time.time;
23.        
24.         }
25.        
26.         // Update is called once per frame
27.         void Update ()
28.         {
29.                 theDeltaTime = Time.time - startTime;
30.                 theDeltaTime = levelTime - theDeltaTime;
31.  
32.                 // get milliseconds to two dp by removing truncated value
33.                 //theDeltaTime = (float)Math.Round((double)theDeltaTime, 2);
34.                 //theMillisecconds = theDeltaTime - Mathf.Round(theDeltaTime);
35.                 theDeltaTime = Mathf.Round(theDeltaTime);
36.  
37.                 // get secconds
38.                 theSecconds = theDeltaTime %60;
39.                 Debug.Log(theSecconds);
40.  
41.                 // get minutes
42.                 theMinutes = theDeltaTime / 60;
43.                 theMinutes = Mathf.Round(theMinutes);
44.  
45.                 // write to screen
46.                 theMilliSeccondsCounter.text = theMillisecconds.ToString();
47.                 theMinutesCounter.text = theSecconds.ToString();
48.                 theMinutesCounter.text = theMinutes.ToString();
49.         }
50. }
51.  

[ArenMook]

1.         static public string FormatTime (int sec)
2.         {
3.                 int min = sec / 60;
4.                 sec = sec - (min * 60);
5.                 return min + ":" + (sec < 10 ? "0" + sec : sec.ToString());
6.         }

[greigy]

Hi,

what you have posted would be the next step, but...

it already calculates the seconds and mins. If you run the code and check the console, you will see the seconds ticking down.

What it is NOT DOING is updating the NGUI labels for seconds. Sorry if I wasn't clear before.

[devomage]

1. theMinutesCounter.text = theSecconds.ToString();
2. theMinutesCounter.text = theMinutes.ToString();
3.  

your seconds label is wrong.

ps:  invokerepeating for timer updates is another possible alternative to Update()

[greigy]

My fault for looking at the same code for too long!

- thanks