Blank spaces in UI

Unity Engine
1

Hello everyone. I want to make my game user-friendly, so I have a small question.

I have a couple of boolean variables, called isFreezed, isBoosted, isJumping etc. and I want to list only the TRUE ones in a panel.
The thing is that if I use the primitive method on putting text then replacing it, it goes wrong leaving some blank spaces because I can’t know which one is active and which one isn’t.

I am fairly new to Unity, been working for about almost 1 month, so please explain as for-newbies as you can. Thanks!

2

I think you use some code like this:

string AppendText(string sourceText, string addText, bool appendText)
{
    if(!(appendText))
        return sourceText;

    return string.Format("{0} {1}", sourceText, addText);
}

// and somewhere in your code:
string myText = "";
myText = AppendText(myText, "isFreezed", isFreezed);
myText = AppendText(myText, "isBoosted", isBoosted);
// etc.

I don’t see where you would have additional spaces.

3

If you use a Vertical Alignment group, the ones whose GameObjects are inactive won’t take up space.

4

I will give these a try. Thanks guys!

5

Depending on what you’d like to achieve, you probably want a subset of Unity’s Auto Layout features, which include Vertical, Horizontal, and Grid layouts, as well as a neat Content Size Fitter which might also help for anything you’d like to display around the bools you mentioned.