ScreenMessage Colors

[toadicus]

In 0.22, Squad has the science parts posting variously-colored ScreenMessages via ScreenMessages.PostScreenMessage. However, I can't find a clean example of how to color them or alter the fonts. Does anyone here know how to do so?

TIA

[UbioZur]

PostScreenMessage return a ScreenMessage that have a GUIStyle guiStyleOverride, you may be able to use that to set the color.

[a.g.]

Adding this here in case it helps somebody searching for this in the future: dumping the actual message object contents to the log shows that messages apparently recognize some HTML tags, so for instance this works to produce orange italic text:

ScreenMessages.PostScreenMessage(
   "<color=#ff9900ff>["+part.partInfo.title+"] <i>"+subject.title+":</i> Container Full.</color>",
  10f, ScreenMessageStyle.UPPER_LEFT
);

P.S. Interestingly, these dumped messages also appear colored etc in the in-game debug log viewer window, so this may be some obscure feature of unity GUI controls in general.

Edited December 6, 2013 by a.g.

[toadicus]

To follow up on this as well, the ScreenMessages system appears to be intended for use with a persistent message whose contents are updated; this is how the "bump" toggle is useful, for instance.

Put another way, rather than building a new ScreenMessage object with new content and style each time you need a new message, one would re-use a single ScreenMessage object for each purpose. For example, the KSP code uses a single persistent ScreenMessage per antenna for all transmission updates with each antenna.

Good to know about the HTML tags; I might have to make use of that.

[stupid_chris]

To follow up on this as well, the ScreenMessages system appears to be intended for use with a persistent message whose contents are updated; this is how the "bump" toggle is useful, for instance.

Put another way, rather than building a new ScreenMessage object with new content and style each time you need a new message, one would re-use a single ScreenMessage object for each purpose. For example, the KSP code uses a single persistent ScreenMessage per antenna for all transmission updates with each antenna.

Good to know about the HTML tags; I might have to make use of that.

Another way to do it is to set the screanMessageTime to Time.fixedDeltaTime, this way, it only lasts one frame and is correctly updated every frame.