2 int's displayed in one GUIText.

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1

Okay, I have this

guiText.text = "" +displayMinutes ":" +displaySeconds;

attached to a GUIText object. Unfortunately it doesn't work...

guiText.text = "" +displayMinutes;

works perfectly, as does

guiText.text = ":" +displaySeconds;

I just can't put them together.

Obviously the rest of this script is a timer script, which works correctly. So, what do I do...

2

Did you mean

guiText.text = "" + displayMinutes + ":" + displaySeconds;

Though I would recommend

guiText.text = displayMinutes.ToString() + ":" + displaySeconds.ToString();

for clarity.

4

Adding strings together with + works fine. Another option though is to use string formatting, like so ...

guiText.text = string.Format("{0}:{1}", displayMinutes, displaySeconds);

Whether you like the syntax better is a matter of taste, but this also gives you much more control over how things are formatted. See the documentation for String.Format for details.

3

Every time you want to add something to a guitext then you will need to have +s in between.

When I was first learning I used to memorized by remembering how I write text:

Lets say I want to add several things to a guiText I used to compare it to a grocery list e.g:

My shopping list!

I need: Milk, bread, dogfood, 20 tampons, candy, batteries. And so on. If I wanted to use that in a guiText then i would say:

guiText.text = "" + Milk + dogfood + 20 tampons + candy + ":" + batteries;

If you get my point I just replaced the commas with +s.

I thought I would tell you this because it helped me a lot when I was first learning.