Accessing a Property of a Component of another Game Object

I'm trying to write a script (that is attached to it's own Game Object) that can check the text property of UI game object and act according to said text. The only issue is that I do not know how to access the property of another game object through a script. Does anyone know how I can go about doing so?

 

If you declare member variable of a script as public, you Unity draw a field for that variable on the inspector to allow you to set the initial value of the variable on instances of the script in a scene.

So you could declare a public variable of type GameObject, then you would see a field in the inspector that would allow you to drag and drop a game object there. Or, if you know this is used for a UI text field specifically, you could declare the variable to be of type UIText, so you can drag and drop references to UIText components in your scene to your script.

(An advanced thing you can do is declare the variable as private, like you are normally encouraged to due for encapsulation, and then put the attribute [SerializedField] above the variable to expose it in the inspector.)

 

Thanks very much for the help. However, I still do have one last problem:

When I type in the code

Code (CSharp):

1. public UIText Text;

to create a public variable to drag and drop the UI element using the inspector, I get the error message "Error CS0103: The name 'UIText' does not exist in the current context."

Should I just use the general term 'GameObject', or should I try a different term?

 

Ah, I made a slight mistake: the name of the class is Text, not UIText. However, the Text class is in the UnityEngine.UI namespace. So you will either need to add a using statement to the top of your script or write out the fully qualified name. Make sense?

 

Oh. Thanks for the help; very much appreciated.