Messages on screen during game

Questions & Answers
1

Hi

A quick question-how to display easiest some message when testing a game in build&run mode?To use GUIText,or there is some other way?

2

GUIText is fine. Can’t add anything to that. Want did you have in mind? GUIText is to display text on the screen as a top layer.

Do you miss something in functionality that makes you think that you need another component?

I use Debug.Log for printing values: http://unity3d.com/support/documentation/ScriptReference/Debug.html but that doesn’t help in build&run of course.

Update on you nullpointerexception

Try to use the following code, because Components don’t have a constructor.

// C#
public void Awake()
{
    GUIText text = this.gameObject.AddComponent<GUIText>();

    // more options here

}
3

Yeah, GUI text is fine, but I you just want it for editing purposes, I think you can use the print method, which I think prints to the console, so then you can just check there, and see whether what you were testing has worked…

Hope this helped!!! :smiley:

-Grady