Access guiText from other object.

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Hi! Simple question, how do i access a guitext that is attached to a other gameObject than the script. The gameObject name is stored in a variable. Thanks in advance!

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Answer by lhk · Oct 31, 2010 at 01:54 PM

Add a variable to the script that needs to access the guitext. The variable should be public so you can assign the guitext to it via the inspector.

public GUIText referencetotext;

When you have set this variable to the guitext you can modify the guitext from your script by using the referencetotext.

void Start()
{
    referencetotext.Text="Hallo";
}

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Tommy · Oct 31, 2010 at 03:26 PM 0

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Thanks for the answer, sure works! Problem is that im using Javascript, is there something familiar like this in JS? Im not that familiar using C, so i can't convert it myself, since i don't understand C that much. Thanks!

matthew 2 · Mar 19, 2012 at 12:40 PM 0

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basically it is public GUIText referencetotext; function Start () { referencetotext.Text="Hallo"; } in javascript :) LOL Never knew how learning web scripting and windows program$$anonymous$$g actually made sense :P

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Answer by lhk · Oct 31, 2010 at 04:17 PM

In Javascript the script should look like this

var referencetotext : GUIText;
function Start()
{
    referencetotext.Text="Hallo";
}

However I don't have much experience with Javascript so I'm not completely sure.

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Tommy · Oct 31, 2010 at 04:29 PM 0

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Works! Now, i can only change the text that i have choosen, i need to be able to display the text attached to a certain gameObject, depending on wich gameObject is selected. I have the gameObject name stored in a var, i need to access the text attached to that gameObject.

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Answer by lhk · Nov 01, 2010 at 08:00 AM

Try this

declare a variable for your object. var object : GameObject;
declare a variable for the GUIText. var text : GUIText;
Find the object you need by using GameObject.Find("thename"). object=GameObject.Find("name");
Access the GUIText component of this GameObject. You can use GameObject.GetComponent(). text=object.GetComponent(GUIText);
Now you can change or use the text of this GameObject. var content=text.Text; text.Text="Hello";

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Zinger · Dec 15, 2012 at 05:02 PM 0

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This is what I needed.

Access guiText from other object.

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