koobas.hobune.stream
Simple way to word wrap?
I've trawled through the documentation referring to GUIStyles, Skins and how to operate them but so far with no success. Can somebody give me a simple explanation on how to implement word wrapping on a guitext, or a Textmesh?
Thanks
GUIStyles are used by the Unity GUI system (OnGUI callback). The GUIText and TextMesh components do not use GUIStyles. Furthermore those components don't have a size to which they should / could wrap around.
So the simple answer is: no, there's no "simple way" for GUIText or TextMesh to wordwrap.
Well, that's unfortunate. I suppose my question then is what's the easiest way to display dialogue that incorporates wordwrapping? There are a few third party plug-ins that deal with this kind of thing but does Unity have a simple way of achieving it out of the box?
Sure, just use the Unity GUI ins$$anonymous$$d. GUIText is actually kind of deprecated, it's still there and you can still use it for simple text but the "new" gui system works way different.
Just use a GUI.Label or any other GUI control you like / need. They're all built on top of GUIStyles and are basically all capable of wordwrapping.
Try GUI Essentials. It has Text Areas created from a GUIText and GUITexture that word wrap the GUIText and keep it in the confines of the GUITexture.
that and GUI skins can be set to automatically wordwrap.
function OnGUI() {
GUI.skin.button.wordWrap = true;
}
Just change the word wrap setting for whatever kind of gui you want (button, label, box..)
There's no need to reset wordWrap state every OnGUI call.
