Displaying a dynamic variable on screen

[Viking86]

Greetings , whats the easiest way to show a changing variable on screen ?, I have a global variable which is changable during the program run time.
I simply want to have a display of the variables current value in the window.

I looked at the tutorial 9 which had something similar

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 gui->addEditBox(L"1.0", core::rect<s32>(100,46,130,66), true, 0, GUI_ID_X_SCALE);
	 IGUIElement* toolboxWnd = device->getGUIEnvironment()->getRootGUIElement()->getElementFromId(GUI_ID_DIALOG_ROOT_WINDOW, true);
	 toolboxWnd->getElementFromId(GUI_ID_X_SCALE, false)->setText(setText( [b]core::stringw(scale.Z).c_str() [/b]);

how do I pass a float variable to the setText function?

[randomMesh]

how do I pass a float variable to the setText function?

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irr::gui::IGUIStaticText* myText = guienv->addStaticText(L"", ...);
//....
myText->setText(irr::core::stringw(myFloatVariable).c_str());

[Viking86]

how do I pass a float variable to the setText function?

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irr::gui::IGUIStaticText myText = guienv->addStaticText(L"", ...);
//....
myText->setText(irr::core::stringw(myFloatVariable).c_str());

Thank you very much

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irr::gui::[b]IGUIStaticText*[/b] myText = gui->addStaticText(L"",core::rect<s32>(0,200,100,220), false, false, 0, -1, true);

had to add the "*" and it works like a charm

[randomMesh]

had to add the "*" and it works like a charm

Sorry, of course addStaticText returns a pointer. Such things happen fast when typing code out of your head.

[Brainsaw]

I prefer using swprintf because of the format possibility:

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  wchar_t s[0xFF];
  swprintf(s,0xFF,L"aValue: %.2f fps",aValue);
  aStaticText->setText(s);