Best way to display a game score on iPhone with cocos2d?

Question

I am looking to persistently display a game score in an iPhone app using cocos2d. Going off the code that cocos2d shows the FPS the app is running at:

-(void) showFPS
{
    frames++;
    accumDt += dt;

    if ( accumDt > 0.1)  {
        frameRate = frames/accumDt;
        frames = 0;
        accumDt = 0;
    }

    NSString *str = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%.1f",frameRate];
    [FPSLabel setString:str];
    [FPSLabel draw];
}

I can get the score to display properly, but it flickers, even though the app is running at faster that 60 FPS... Any ideas?

Answer 1

Try using LabelAtlas instead. It is faster (it consumes much less CPU). See the AtlasDemo that comes with the cocos2d distribution to see how to use it.

Answer 2

For anyone who might be interested, I ended up using a cocos2d Label as so:

scoreLabel = [Label labelWithString: [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%d", score] dimensions: CGSizeMake(180, 20) alignment: UITextAlignmentRight fontName:@"Arial" fontSize: 20];
[scoreLabel setPosition: cpv(100,100)];
[self add: scoreLabel];

Hopefully this can help someone else.