STMPagination.cs

//Copyright (c) 2016-2020 Kai Clavier [kaiclavier.com] Do Not Distribute
using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

[RequireComponent(typeof(SuperTextMesh))]
public class STMPagination : MonoBehaviour {
    public SuperTextMesh originalText;
    public SuperTextMesh overflowText;

    public void Awake(){
        //clear on runtime
        overflowText.text = "";
    }
    public void OverflowLeftovers(){
        overflowText.text = originalText.leftoverText.TrimStart();
        //if there's no text, Rebuild() doesn't get called anyway
        //use TrimStart() to remove any spaces that might have carried over.
    }
    //is this implementation better? causes errors when the object isn't defined...
    //sort of a non-issue tho, an error *should* be returned if the next text field isn't defined!
    public void OverflowLeftovers(SuperTextMesh stm)
    {
        overflowText.text = stm.leftoverText.TrimStart();
    }

    public void Reset()
    {
        originalText = GetComponent<SuperTextMesh>();
    }
    //update, just use delegate events to subscibe automatically!
    public void OnEnable()
    {
        originalText.OnCompleteEvent += OverflowLeftovers;
    }
    public void OnDisable()
    {
        originalText.OnCompleteEvent -= OverflowLeftovers;
    }
}