Changing text of a UITextbox after spawn

[Mmarzex]

Currently I spawn a UITextbox with my player for score keeping. I set the text to 'score: 0' and then in the player update I want to change the text I did

myuiBox.text = "score: " + ig.game.score

That doesn't change the text. I noticed that if I go into the console when running the game and set myuiBox.text to something else it doesn't change but if I do myuiBox.textsettings.text then it does change but not on screen just in the console. Is there someway to do this?

[collinhover]

UI elements don't change unless their refresh method is called, because they are often expensive to build and don't usually change. So after you set the text, call the refresh method.

[Mmarzex]

Okay, I'll try that. Would it be more efficient to use like say EntityText for something that will be changing more often? And if I were to use EntityText how would it follow the player like the UI box does?

[collinhover]

EntityText is a UI element with a few property changes, but it is still basically a UIText element. You can use moveTo(myPlayer) but I'd recommend using the UIText.

[Mmarzex]

Alright, I just wasn't sure. Now I call the refresh() method on my UIText element but the score text displayed doesn't update but it does change if I bring it up in the console. Is there something else I am missing?

[Mmarzex]

nevermind, I got it working, put it in the wrong update loop.

[collinhover]

To be honest, I should probably add a check in the UIText to automatically update when the text has changed. I'll put it on the todo list for r6.

[collinhover]

In latest dev (r6) UIText auto updates when the text property is changed so you no longer need to call refresh().