Dynamically create/show text?

[ronronmx]

I need to show some feedback text when the player gets something, for example, pickup a hidden token, and "YOU FOUND A GOLDEN TOKEN!" appears on the screen for a few seconds.
Right now, I am instantiating a Prefab which is setup this way: UIRoot-Camera-Panel-UILabel, and I destroy it after X seconds.

But, I already have a main HUD with a UIRoot-Camera-Anchor-Panel present in the scene for my normal HUD, so the way I am doing it above seems over-complicated and creates another UI Camera as well.

Does NGUI have a "CreateHUDText" function/tool I am un-aware of? What would be the better way to show a temporary on-screen message with NGUI?

Thanks for your time!
Stephane

[lime-green.at]

You could just "child" the dynamically created label to your main HUD.

1.     private void ShowHUDText(string text)
2.     {
3.         // Your hud panel
4.         GameObject panel = GameObject.Find("YourMainHUDPanel");
5.  
6.         // The instantiated label
7.         GameObject textLabel = Instantiate(Resources.Load("Prefab/HUDText")) as GameObject;
8.  
9.         // Child the label to the panel
10.         textLabel.transform.parent = panel.transform;
11.  
12.         // Rescale the label
13.         textLabel.GetComponent<UILabel>().MakePixelPerfect();
14.     }

[ArenMook]

Never use Instantiate. Use NGUITools.AddChild -- it sets the layer, resets the local pos/rot/scale, and parents right away.

[ronronmx]

Ah yes, I just found out about AddChild last night and I am using it now, works great!

Thanks for the example lime-green.at, I wasn't calling MakePixelPerfect and that was my problem. Using the AddChild method + MakePixelPerfect is setting everything up correctly.

Thanks guys!