How to change the color of text in a .ToString() function?

Hi!

As the title says, I need to change how text looks the way you could with normal strings like

"Hello <b>person</b>"

but inside of a .ToString() function. Is this even possible?

For a quick example, one of my lines of code is

"\nShiny Powder: x" + int_ShinyPowder.ToString();

and I need the int_ShinyPowder.ToString() to be red instead of the white that's on the text game object.

 

Well, not exactly "inside" but you can put the needed (markup?) before & after.

Code (csharp):

1. "\nShiny Powder: x<color=red>" + int_ShinyPowder.ToString() + "</color>";

Sorry if that colour code isn't correct, I didn't look it up to confirm, but that's the idea.

 

In addition, you can do this if you want to use a specific color.

Code (CSharp):

1. string fu = "Hello <#CAFFD8>World</color>";

 

Hi! This is exactly what I needed! Thanks for the help!

 

No problem. You're welcome.

 

Thank you so much methos5k!
I got one more question regarding a string object instead of .ToString method that takes the string as "" parameter. I can't figure out how to do it on the someString example field below

Code (CSharp):

1.  
2. TextMeshProUGUI textRef;
3. void someMethod(string someString)
4. {
5.    int someInt;
6.    textRef.text = someString + someInt.ToString("<color=red>00</color>");
7. }

Edit: I had to do the same color tagging but where the someMethod gets called on the string that is passed as parameter to it.

 

Try

$"<color=red>{someInt}</color>";

 

int.ToString("") works with methos5k approach, the problem was someString parameter in the method, but it works when the same approach is performed when the method is called.

 

You could always make a wrapper function to do just that:

Code (CSharp):

1. string ColoredInt(int num){
2. return “<color=red>”+num+”</color>”;
3. }
4.  
5. “Shiney powder: “+ColoredInt(int_shineypowder);

you could also add a second parameter to add the color, ex “red”.

note: you dont actually need to write .ToString if you are adding a number to a string with +, that conversion is automatically done for you.

 

Speaking of wrapper functions... I thought this post was particularly brilliant. Check it:

https://forum.unity.com/threads/easy-text-format-your-debug-logs-rich-text-format.906464/