• Products
  • Solutions
  • Made with Unity
  • Learning
  • Support & Services
  • Community
  • Asset Store
  • Get Unity

UNITY ACCOUNT

You need a Unity Account to shop in the Online and Asset Stores, participate in the Unity Community and manage your license portfolio. Login Create account
  • Blog
  • Forums
  • Answers
  • Evangelists
  • User Groups
  • Beta Program
  • Advisory Panel

Navigation

  • Home
  • Products
  • Solutions
  • Made with Unity
  • Learning
  • Support & Services
  • Community
    • Blog
    • Forums
    • Answers
    • Evangelists
    • User Groups
    • Beta Program
    • Advisory Panel

Unity account

You need a Unity Account to shop in the Online and Asset Stores, participate in the Unity Community and manage your license portfolio. Login Create account

Language

  • Chinese
  • Spanish
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Portuguese
  • Ask a question
  • Spaces
    • Default
    • Help Room
    • META
    • Moderators
    • Topics
    • Questions
    • Users
    • Badges
  • Home /
  • Help Room /
avatar image
Question by AlexStf · Mar 30, 2017 at 09:05 AM · c#unity 5script.scripting beginnerplayerprefs

Set the username with an inputfield ?

Hi guys, i'm new around unity/c#, and i'm trying to make an online leaderboard for a flappy bird like game,i followed Sebastian Lague's Dreamlo tutorial,and from the looks of it, i need a username,and can't quite figure it how to do it.I put an InputField in the main menu, but it doesn't save it at all. (No completions found for Player prefs) Any help would be awesome. Thanks! This is my wanna be code for that:

 using UnityEngine;
 using System.Collections;
 using UnityEngine.UI;
 
 public class InputName : MonoBehaviour {
 
     public string userName;
     public GameObject inputField;
 
     public void Awake()
     {
         userName = inputField.GetComponent<InputField> ().text;
 
     }
 }

Comment

People who like this

0 Show 0
10 |3000 characters needed characters left characters exceeded
▼
  • Viewable by all users
  • Viewable by moderators
  • Viewable by moderators and the original poster
  • Advanced visibility
Viewable by all users

3 Replies

· Add your reply
  • Sort: 
avatar image
Best Answer

Answer by UnityCoach · Mar 30, 2017 at 11:37 AM

Hi, first you need a public method that takes a string for parameter

 public class InputName : MonoBehaviour
 { 
      public string userName;
  
      public void SetUserName (string text)
      {
          userName = text;
      }
  }

Then, in the editor, add an action to the OnValueChanged event of the Inputfield to point to that method.

Comment

People who like this

0 Show 2 · Share
10 |3000 characters needed characters left characters exceeded
▼
  • Viewable by all users
  • Viewable by moderators
  • Viewable by moderators and the original poster
  • Advanced visibility
Viewable by all users
avatar image UnityCoach · Mar 30, 2017 at 11:41 AM 1
Share

You can also save/reload it with PlayerPrefs, like :

 public class InputName : MonoBehaviour
  { 

   public string userName;
   public InputField inputField;

   public void Awake()
  {
      userName = PlayerPrefs.GetString ("playerName", "Player");
      inputField.text = userName;
  }
   public void SetUserName (string text)
   {
       userName = text;
       PlayerPrefs.SetString ("playerName", userName);
   }
   }


avatar image UnityCoach UnityCoach · Mar 30, 2017 at 01:31 PM 0
Share

And for the sake of code awesomeness, I would use a property/accessor.

 public class InputName : MonoBehaviour
 {
     public InputField inputField;
     
     private string _userName
     public string userName
     {
         get
         {
             if (_userName == string.Empty)
                 _userName = PlayerPrefs.GetString ("playerName", "Player");
             return _userName;
         }
         set
         {
             _userName = value;
             PlayerPrefs.SetString ("playerName", _userName);
         }
     }
     
     public void Awake()
     {
         inputField.text = userName;
     }
     
     public void SetUserName (string text)
     {
         userName = text;
     }
 }
 

I'm happy to help. If it all works, please accept the answer so that it closes the question. If you'd like more tips, you can subscribe to my youtube page, or check out my full training course

avatar image

Answer by AlexStf · Mar 30, 2017 at 12:47 PM

Can't thank you enough man !!

Comment

People who like this

0 Show 0 · Share
10 |3000 characters needed characters left characters exceeded
▼
  • Viewable by all users
  • Viewable by moderators
  • Viewable by moderators and the original poster
  • Advanced visibility
Viewable by all users
avatar image

Answer by designerpro11 · Apr 08, 2021 at 12:22 AM

How to Display Text from InputField and Save User name in Unity https://youtu.be/uoLk9iBTnls

Comment

People who like this

0 Show 0 · Share
10 |3000 characters needed characters left characters exceeded
▼
  • Viewable by all users
  • Viewable by moderators
  • Viewable by moderators and the original poster
  • Advanced visibility
Viewable by all users

Your answer

Hint: You can notify a user about this post by typing @username

Up to 2 attachments (including images) can be used with a maximum of 524.3 kB each and 1.0 MB total.

Update about the future of Unity Answers

Unity Answers content will be migrated to a new Community platform and we are aiming to launch a public beta later in June. Please note, we are aiming to set Unity Answers to read-only mode on the 31st of May in order to prepare for the final data migration.

For more information, please read our full announcement.

Follow this Question

Answers Answers and Comments

355 People are following this question.

avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image

Related Questions

My save data is being overwritten 0 Answers

How to access camera Dont Clear in camera clear flags using c# 1 Answer

please help me, i'm creating a first person game, but my script is incomplete and i can't crouch 0 Answers

Basic Code Problem 1 Answer

Lower or Higher then playerprefs int value 0 Answers


Enterprise
Social Q&A

Social
Subscribe on YouTube social-youtube Follow on LinkedIn social-linkedin Follow on Twitter social-twitter Follow on Facebook social-facebook Follow on Instagram social-instagram

Footer

  • Purchase
    • Products
    • Subscription
    • Asset Store
    • Unity Gear
    • Resellers
  • Education
    • Students
    • Educators
    • Certification
    • Learn
    • Center of Excellence
  • Download
    • Unity
    • Beta Program
  • Unity Labs
    • Labs
    • Publications
  • Resources
    • Learn platform
    • Community
    • Documentation
    • Unity QA
    • FAQ
    • Services Status
    • Connect
  • About Unity
    • About Us
    • Blog
    • Events
    • Careers
    • Contact
    • Press
    • Partners
    • Affiliates
    • Security
Copyright © 2020 Unity Technologies
  • Legal
  • Privacy Policy
  • Cookies
  • Do Not Sell My Personal Information
  • Cookies Settings
"Unity", Unity logos, and other Unity trademarks are trademarks or registered trademarks of Unity Technologies or its affiliates in the U.S. and elsewhere (more info here). Other names or brands are trademarks of their respective owners.
  • Anonymous
  • Sign in
  • Create
  • Ask a question
  • Spaces
  • Default
  • Help Room
  • META
  • Moderators
  • Explore
  • Topics
  • Questions
  • Users
  • Badges