Hi everyone,
Is it possible to create a textbox that reflects data that is fed from a database or even excel in realtime?
I would like to create a walkthrough with a few messages that are displaying information.
Thank you!
1 Answer
1Yes.
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Use GUI.TextField (or 3rd party alternatives) to do the text box.
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Use WWW, Sockets, Named Pipes (not likely, but doable, depending on what you are doing), Plugins or any other inter-process capable communication API.
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Set up a database of your choice, etc.
If you just want to get something quick and dirty up and running and you have a mysql/php server up, check this WWWForm PHP Example out, which submits highscore to a server and retrieves the values. It’s based on Unitys WWWForm Perl Example. Not really real time but you’d get the idea that message passing is possible. For integration with Excel, I can’t help you. You probably have some API for Office that you can use as a plugin.