Default references will only be applied in edit mode / Assining Text

Hey there, I was currently doing the Roll A Ball Tutorial in Unity. I was watching Video 7 of 8. When he assigns the Text into the right field in the inspector of the Script it works. For me, it says: Default references will only be applied in edit mode. I basically just want to assign the Unity UI Text to the right field from a script.
I am getting this error:
NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
PlayerController.SetCountText () (at Assets/Skripts/PlayerController.cs:44)
PlayerController.Start () (at Assets/Skripts/PlayerController.cs:18)


What could be the error?

Thank you for your help!
Paul

 

Sounds like you're currently in play mode; you'll want to press the play button at the top so that it's depressed and return back to edit mode so that you can set the default in the inspector.

Remember, any changes in play mode are not saved!

The null reference you're getting is probably because you're not setting the default in the inspector

 

I´m not in play mode, and the play button is black.

 

Yeah you're definitely in play mode, even if you're not in game view currently.

 

But how can I exit play mode, when I´m not in play mode?

 

Try clicking the play button...?

If your play button looks like this:

I can assure you that you are most definitely in play mode.

Just press the play button so that it is not dark anymore, and switch back to scene view.

 

I swear I´m not stupid. It´s still not working. As you can see, the button is blue, I´m in scene view and it´s still not working!

 

@pauljbonte
...Your play button is dark/pressed, silly =w=

Being in scene view doesn't mean you're not in play mode. The two are not mutual exclusive, so you can switch to scene view while in play mode, and switch to game view while in edit mode.

 

Now I´m not in play mode. Same problem...

 

The console errors don't get cleared when exiting play mode. (Though they can be set to clear when pressing play)

So now try dragging the text to the right field in the inspector and press play. This time it should work with no null exception errors.

 

It wont let me drag it into the right field.

 

Doesn't make sense; could you provide more details, please?

 

The mouse turns into a crossed out circle.

 

I know that, what I'm saying is that unless something freaky is happening, it won't let you drag a component to a field because they are mismatched. (e.g. can't put a texture component in a transform field)

 

I think that is, because I´m apparently still in play mode (=not in edit mode)
But I´m not in play mode.

 

Have you tried restarting Unity yet?

 

Yes. Should I just send you all the files and you can try to fix it?

 

I'm on my phone until late evening, so if you do you'll have to wait ^^;

 

How should I send the files?

 

I don´t know how to send it!

 

Sorry, been busy lately; why don't you use some sort of file upload service? There's ones like Mediafire, or even OneDrive or Google Drive. (Dropbox is blegh)

 

I have the same problem. "Default references will only be applied in edit mode"

I tried restarting Unity, restarting PC without success.

Can anyone Paul or Rausy explain how you solve it.

Thanks in advance.

 

Are you guys trying to apply a ref to "A Script" or "A Prefab"?
Notice in the video, he apply the ref to his prefab.

 

Same problem here

 

Take a look at this, it took me a while to find it, as i m not a native speaker.
https://answers.unity.com/questions/981404/cannot-drag-and-drop-uitext-in-inspector.html

 

For anyone who bumps into this, your error is likely to be that both the script object and the player object show this field, but only the player object will accept a dropped value. So you must set your inspector to the player object before dragging your text object!
The same thing is true of the earlier drag of the player object to the camera object: rather than trying to drag it to the controller script, choose the camera in the inspector first.

 

I have had this problem with Unity 2019 and I couldn't figure it out until I found this thread. It appears that the script object when you click on the script in the Assets, shows the field and so does the object in the hierarchy that you have the script attached to. The script file in the assets folder will not be able to accept the Text into the field. But if you click on the object in the hierarchy where the script is attached to(the instance), it attaches and works just fine.