Need to clear a list but still see the GUI.

Scripting
1

Basically this code works. The problem is, when I clear the list, nothing show. I don’t clear the list and I get a lot of overlapping windows. I tried LastUpdate to clear, but I never see the text.

I need to clear the list after it renders the text. Thanx for any help in advance. (Unity 3.5.7)

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;

public class utlPrint : MonoBehaviour 
{	
    private static utlPrint inst 			= null;
	
	public class printInfo
	{
		public float x;
		public float y;
		public float height;
		public float width;
		public string buffer;
		public printInfo(float x,float y,float width,float height,string buffer)
		{
			this.x							= x;
			this.y							= y;
			this.width						= width;
			this.height						= height;
			this.buffer						= buffer;
		}
	}
	
	public List<printInfo> printList		= null;
    public static utlPrint Inst
	{
        get
        {
            if (inst == null)
            {
                Debug.Log("Instantiating utlPrint");
                GameObject PRINTOBJ			= new GameObject();
                inst	 					= PRINTOBJ.AddComponent<utlPrint>();
                PRINTOBJ.name 				= "UTLPRINT";
				inst.printList				= new List<printInfo>();
				DontDestroyOnLoad(PRINTOBJ);
            }
            
            return inst;
        }		
	}
	
	
	// Use this for initialization
	void Start () 
	{
		
	}
	
	// Update is called once per frame
	void Update () 
	{
	
	}	
	
	public void print(float x,float y,float width,float height,string buffer)
	{
		printList.Add(new printInfo(x,y,width,height,buffer));
	}
	
	void OnGUI()
	{

		if(printList==null)
			return;

		for(int i=0;i<printList.Count;i++)
		{
			var t					= printList[i];
			GUI.Box (new Rect (t.x,t.y,t.width,t.height), t.buffer);
		}
		printList.Clear();
	}
}
2

Maybe try a coroutine or invoke to clear it after a certain amount of time, though if its meant for user interaction you should propably use windows instead and put a button on each of them which removes that specified window/entry from the list.

3

I was thinking of double buffering the list. Have listone and listtwo. Render the new one, clear the old and then switch. Ugly though.