Script to change GUI text's displayed text value?

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Hi. I want to use GUI Text to display a score, but it needs to change. Can I please have a basic code snippet to change the displayed text from a variable?

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Answer by e-bonneville · Apr 06, 2011 at 01:02 AM

Check out the docs for GUI Text. You'll specifically be interested in the text variable of a GUI Text.

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Keavon · Apr 06, 2011 at 01:12 AM 0

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It works! Thank you! I checked the documentation but was unable to find it. A real quick question, is how would I call a specific gameobject (the GUI text) from that script attached to a different gameobject?

e-bonneville · Apr 06, 2011 at 01:37 AM 0

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Yes, but you'll have to create a reference to that specific GUIText component, e.g. something like public GUIText myGUIText in C# (`var myGUIText : GUIText` in JS) and then change the .text variable on myGUIText, like so: myGUIText.text = scoreVariable; You'll also need to assign a reference to that script in the Inspector.

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Answer by A_Devloper · Sep 16, 2014 at 07:10 AM

To find the GUIText object, you can also use GameObject.Find, like so:

 guiText = GameObject.Find("GUI_TEXT_NAME").guiText;

For effieciency, do this in the Start() function and save it to a private GUIText variable.

As of Unity 2.0, you can also use the GUI.Label function.

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Answer by Ziaxp · May 31, 2015 at 08:19 PM

First put using UnityEngine.UI; then do the following and attach this script to UI TEXT Control.

      using UnityEngine;
   
      using UnityEngine.UI;

       using System.Collections;
 
      public class DisplayScore : MonoBehaviour {
 
  Text txt;
  private int currentscore=0;
 
  // Use this for initialization
  void Start () {
      txt = gameObject.GetComponent<Text>(); 
      txt.text="Score : " + currentscore;
  }
  
  // Update is called once per frame
  void Update () {
      txt.text="Score : " + currentscore;  
      currentscore = PlayerPrefs.GetInt("TOTALSCORE"); 
      PlayerPrefs.SetInt("SHOWSTARTSCORE",currentscore); 
  }

}

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Jacebook · Jan 22, 2018 at 06:29 AM 1

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I'm having an error with this one, it says "Cannot implicitly convert type 'int' to 'string'. I've copied your script exactly.

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Answer by Bunny83 · Apr 06, 2011 at 01:15 AM

Like Elliot said:

guiText.text = "New Text";

You didn't tell us what language you use, but fortunately this line is the same in JS or C# (i guess you don't use Boo? right?) ;)

edit

To change the GUIText of another GameObject you can put a public variable at the top of your script and drag the desired GameObject/GUIText onto the variable in the inspector.

// JS var targetGuiText : GUIText;

function Start()
{
    targetGuiText.text = "Hey ya!";
}

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Keavon · Apr 06, 2011 at 02:29 AM 0

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Hi. Sorry, yes I am using Javascript. Lol about Boo. I have never even heard of it before Unity. :P

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Answer by Danao · Sep 16, 2014 at 07:30 AM

Here what I used. I tried a few other methods that gave me some issues, this seems to work great with the yourText GUI Text Object dragged into the inspector:

 public class WhateverScript : MonoBehaviour {
 
     public GUIText yourText;
 
 void Update (){
 
     yourText.text = "Coins " + currentCoins + "/" + maxCoins;

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