Using a custom style of GUI.skin

Questions & Answers
1

I’ve read at least 5 posts about this subject, but they didn’t have the right answer to solve it. Therefore I make this post.

My problem is as follows: I have a GUISkin used for my menu’s. If I have the following OnGUI function, the time is displayed correctly:

void OnGUI ()
	{
		GUI.skin = skin;

		GUI.Label (new Rect (10, 40, 400, 400), "Time: " + currTimer);
	}

However, after I made a custom style called “Time_Label”, I wrote this code:

void OnGUI ()
    	{
    		GUI.skin = skin;
    
    		GUI.Label (new Rect (10, 40, 400, 400), "Time: " + currTimer, skin.GetStyle("Time_Label"));
    	}

And now the time doesn’t get displayed. What’s wrong?

2

Your should put GUI before skin.GetStyle (“Time_Label”));

Something like this:

 GUI.Label (new Rect (10, 40, 400, 400), "Time: " + currTimer, GUI.skin.GetStyle("Time_Label"));
3

Try to get the style the line above and check if the style is null.

If it is null, then there is a mismatch on the name. Check there is no space in the name that could cause that.
If not, the problems are in the parameters of your style.

4

Everyone, thanks for answering. Apparently I’m very stupid. The alpha value of my colors were 0, so it worked, but the text was invisible :frowning:

Again, thanks :slight_smile: