Loading text into Gui.Box

Questions & Answers
1

I've searched couldn't find a clear answer. Maybe I missed it. I have a text area that i want to load text into from a text file that I've added as an asset. Is there a way in C# to load the text directly to the GUI.Box along with line breaks so it wont just be one long line of text in the Gui.Box?

2

I just did a quick test and the line breaks came in no problem in a default GUI.Box from a TextAsset. e.g.

public TextAsset textAsset;
void OnGUI()
{
  GUI.Box( new Rect( 0, 0, Screen.width, Screen.height ), textAsset.text );
}

Maybe if you're not seeing the line breaks there could be an issue with the text asset itself (line breaks often have platform specific quirks).

3

You can also use the WWW class to load resources from the hard disk, by using Application.dataPath

var www : WWW;
var text_: string;

function LoadAndDisplay()
{
   www = new WWW(Application.dataPath + "/file.txt");
   yield www;
   text_ = www.text;
}

function OnGUI() 
{
   if (text_)
     GUI.Label(new Rect(0,0,100,30), text_);

}