How to add a screen message in the upper left corner?

[Angelo Kerman]

Hi all,

I'm trying to figure out how to add a screen message in the upper left corner like this:

I know about ScreenMessages.PostScreenMessage, but none of the ScreenMessageStyle options seems to print the message in the upper left in the font shown in the screenshot. Any ideas?

Thanks for the help.

[MrMcMuffin]

Try adding a bunch of spaces at the end of upper center message like this

ScreenMessages.PostScreenMessage("You message here                               ", 2f, ScreenMessageStyle.UPPER_CENTER);

. It's kind of crude but I think It should work.

[NathanKell]

Or you could pass the position in the PostScreenMessage call. One of the forms lets you specify.

[Angelo Kerman]

Thanks for the help. I figured out that there is a ScreenMessage class, and you use it to set a GUIStyle. It appears that there are a few GUIStyle objects in the ScreenMessages object (I had to get it via FindObjectOfType), and the first one in the array of textStyles has what I need.

[beabop]

Is there a consensus that ScreenMessage should not be used? Instead you use the ScreenMessages static functions?

[Angelo Kerman]

Is there a consensus that ScreenMessage should not be used? Instead you use the ScreenMessages static functions?

ScreenMessages.PostScreenMessage has an override that takes a ScreenMessage object. That's what I'm using, now that I know how.

[Ser]

But be careful, guys, with those messages. You can specify a time-to-live for the message as one of the PostScreenMessage's param. If it is small enough (say 0.01s) then you can flood your memory and cause a crash.

As a different way I can suggest GUI.Label method. Just an alternative, not known by me to be quicker, nor safer, nor simpler as you have to use it in a method attached to a PostDrawingQueue, but you can specify a text color.

[DMagic]

ScreenMessageStyle.UPPER_LEFT, or something like that will put the message in that corner, like stock messages.

The problem with using a GUI.Label is that it won't respect other screen messages. The stock function adds each message on a new line. A GUI label will just draw it on top of any other messages. There might be some way of figuring out if other messages are being displayed, how many there are, and how far down you have to move your own label, but that seems like too much trouble. Though I suppose you could just draw your message somewhere else on the screen so that it won't overlap.

[NathanKell]

You can color screenmessages too.