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NGUI for Unity

By : Charles Bernardoff (EURO)

3.9 (14)

NGUI for Unity

3.9 (14)

By: Charles Bernardoff (EURO)

Overview of this book

NGUI for Unity

NGUI for Unity

Credits

Credits

About the Author

About the Author

About the Reviewers

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

Preface

Free Chapter

Getting Started with NGUI

Getting Started with NGUI

What is NGUI?

Importing NGUI

Creating your UI

Your UI structure

Summary

Creating Widgets

Creating Widgets

Creating our first widget

Sprites

Labels

Buttons

Text input

Slider

Toggle

Popup list

Summary

Enhancing your UI

Enhancing your UI

NGUI components

The draggable panel

The drag-and-drop system

Animations with NGUI

Scrollable text

Localization system

Summary

C# with NGUI

C# with NGUI

Events methods

Tween methods

Using keys for navigation

Error notification

Saving the nickname

Sending messages

Forwarding an event

Summary

Building a Scrollable Viewport

Building a Scrollable Viewport

Preparing the Game scene

The scrollable viewport

Creating draggable barriers

Creating an ActiveBarrier prefab

BarrierObject cooldown

The barrier availability tool tip

Summary

Atlas and Font Customization

Atlas and Font Customization

The Atlas prefab

Creating a new Atlas

Adding sprites to Atlas

Adding a font

Customizing the MainMenu

Summary

Creating a Game with NGUI

Creating a Game with NGUI

Enemy spawning

Handling enemy collisions

Creating self-destruct code

Summary

Index

Index

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Labels

Labels are used to display text on the screen with a specific font as shown in the following screenshot:

Let's create a label widget with the following steps:

Select the Panel GameObject.
Navigate to NGUI | Open | Widget Wizard.
Select the Label template.
We have already selected a font; it will be used for this label.
Click on the Add To button.

A new label has been added to the panel and placed at the center of the screen.

Parameters

With Label selected, the UILabel parameters are shown in the Inspector view. They are as follows:

Text: This is a large textbox that lets you type the text to be displayed.
Overflow: This offers four different behaviors for the widget when the text is larger than the label's Dimensions. The four behaviors are as follows:
- Shrink Content: This shrinks the text in order to fit
- Clamp Content: This ensures overflow will never happen
- Resize Freely: This resizes to display all the content and overflow
- Resize Height: This resizes height only—column style
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