What is the best way to implement local scores to show on each scene?

Should I use label or AtlasLabel?

I tried to use label and AtlasLabel, but it does not get updated, it just displays zero.

Thanks!

Hi guys,

Is there any way to make LabelAtlas to take 50% or more of the iphone screen?

Thanks!

Hey all so im trying to display a bitmapfontAtlas. It works perfectly to display it but when i try to update it, it crashes. here is what i have

-(void) displayScore {

	BitmapFontAtlas *label1 = [BitmapFontAtlas bitmapFontAtlasWithString:@"SCORE:" fntFile:@"IceAge3.fnt"];

	label1.anchorPoint = ccp(0,0);
	[self addChild:label1 z:0 tag:kTagBitmapAtlas1];

	CGSize s = [[Director sharedDirector] winSize];
	label1.position = ccp( s.width/2, s.height/2);

}

This displays fine but then in my game loop i have updateScore and this:

-(void) updateScore {
	int score = [GlobalDataManager sharedDataManager].currentScore;
	NSString *string = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"SCORE: %i", score];
	NSLog(@"%@", string);
	BitmapFontAtlas *label1 = (BitmapFontAtlas*) [self getChildByTag:kTagBitmapAtlas1];
	[label1 setString:string];
}

It crashes on:
[label1 setString:string];
with:

*** -[AtlasSpriteManager setString:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0xe6d540
2009-07-28 01:13:36.352 SnowFight[62234:20b] *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '*** -[AtlasSpriteManager setString:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0xe6d540'

Im sure I made a stupid mistake somewhere but i copied and pasted this from the cocos2d project.

Thanks
-Lars

Hi all,

I've just changed all my atlasLabel from this:

// timeTakenLabel = [LabelAtlas labelAtlasWithString:@"0.0" charMapFile:@"charmap6.png" itemWidth:48 itemHeight:70 startCharMap:' '];

To this:
timeTakenLabel = [Label labelWithString:NSLocalizedString(@"", @"") dimensions:CGSizeMake(300, 60) alignment:UITextAlignmentLeft fontName:@"Marker Felt" fontSize:30];

Obviously, I am going from labelAtlases to Labels, and as such I'm getting some major slowdown in game as the labels are constantly updated. I made the change because I want to use the Marker Felt font in the label.

Is there a way to use this font without changing the atlaslabel to a label, and so avoid the slowdown? The font looks excellent!