Change UILabel Material in Real-time

[sandolkakos]

Hello ArenMook,

I'm trying to change the Material of my UILabel in real-time. The Material is changed but the effect does not happen.

The effect happens when I set the Material Manually via Inspector, so I can't understand my mistake

I'm setting it like this:

1. this.GetComponent<UILabel>().material = newMaterial;
2.  

[ArenMook]

Is it a dynamic font label? Bitmap fonts always use the material of their atlas.

[sandolkakos]

yes, I'm using dynamic font in the UILabel.

In the Attachment Files I've uploaded a file with the video showing the error.

Thank you for the attention, ArenMook.

[ArenMook]

I am not able to view that video. May I suggest uploading to youtube instead?

[sandolkakos]

Here you are
http://youtu.be/2CHTupWka8E

[ArenMook]

I don't recommend using OnGUI with NGUI.

Regardless, this seems to be a bug. You can fix it by changing UILabel's material property to this:

1.         public override Material material
2.         {
3.                 get
4.                 {
5.                         if (mMaterial != null) return mMaterial;
6.                         if (mFont != null) return mFont.material;
7.                         if (mTrueTypeFont != null) return mTrueTypeFont.material;
8.                         return null;
9.                 }
10.                 set
11.                 {
12.                         if (mMaterial != value)
13.                         {
14.                                 RemoveFromPanel();
15.                                 mMaterial = value;
16.                                 MarkAsChanged();
17.                         }
18.                 }
19.         }

[sandolkakos]

Thank you, ArenMook. It is now fixed.

About the OnGUI, I just used it to show you how the problem was happening