UI Text not displaying properly.

So, I have this text that displays the number of missiles my character holds. It works fine for the start, when you have 1 missiles. However I have it set so that when the player presses a button to try to launch a missile to a spot, it reduces the number of missiles by 1, which gets displayed fine but if the player decides not to launch it, the number reverts back to whatever it was before the subtraction. This does not get shown on the UI.

Any help?
C# is preferred.

Code (CSharp):

1. using System.Collections;
2. using System.Collections.Generic;
3. using UnityEngine.UI;
4. using UnityEngine;
5.  
6. public class RocketCount : MonoBehaviour {
7.  
8.     public Text rocketCount;
9.     GameObject player;
10.     int missilesCount;
11.  
12.     // Use this for initialization
13.     void Start () {
14.  
15.         player = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag ("Player");
16.         missilesCount = player.GetComponent<PlayerController> ().missiles;
17.  
18.     }
19.    
20.     // Update is called once per frame
21.     void Update () {
22.  
23.         missilesCount = player.GetComponent<PlayerController> ().missiles;
24.         rocketCount.text = "X " + missilesCount.ToString ();
25.  
26.     }
27. }
28.  

 

I don't see why rocketcount.text would display a wrong number, maybe post the part of your player script?

On a side note, I wouldn't use get component in the update function. An easier and more efficient way would be to reference the rocketcount in your player script. And your probably don't need to put that in an update function either, just update it when you change the "missiles".

 

It isn't displaying the wrong number exactly, it just doesn't update properly. Also, I feel like in another script, when the text is changed, it doesn't get rid of the parts before it, just adds layers of that number on and on, so I feel like the text UI is just buggy :/

 

Before submitting as a bug, try to use Debug.Log to print and display in the console the value.
Also, an OnGUI helps to display and debug the value on screen:

Code (CSharp):

1. void OnGUI()
2. {
3.     GUILayout.Label ( missilesCount +  " = " + missilesCount.ToString() );
4. }