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Code (CSharp):

1. using System.Collections;
2. using System.Collections.Generic;
3. using UnityEngine;
4. using UnityEngine.UI;
5.  
6.  
7. public class EntireGameManager : MonoBehaviour {
8.  
9.     public static int viewinglistitem = 0;
10.     public List<string> showingtext = new List<string>();
11.  
12.     public GameObject thetext;
13.  
14.     void atl (string adding){
15.         showingtext.Add (adding);
16.     }
17.  
18.     // Use this for initialization
19.     void Start () {
20.         showingtext.Add ("I love chicken boiis");
21.         showingtext.Add ("I love chicken boisssis");
22.         atl ("AND CHICKEN IS ALSO SUPER GOOD SO YEAH ");
23.  
24.     }
25.    
26.     // Update is called once per frame
27.     void Update () {
28.  
29.         string textofitem = showingtext[viewinglistitem];
30.         GetComponent<Text>().text = textofitem;
31.  
32.  
33.         if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space)){
34.             if (showingtext.Count - 1 > viewinglistitem) {
35.                 viewinglistitem += 1;
36.             } else {
37.                 Debug.Log("Last item of list reached");
38.             }
39.         }
40.     }
41. }
42.  

on line 30 i dont know and i cant find out how to get the component of the "thetext" gameobject in line 12.
does anyone know how to do this???

 

Make it thetext.GetComponent<....

You could also make thetext directly point to the Text component, and not need the GetComponent call at all:

Code (csharp):

1. public Text thetext;
2. ....
3. thetext.text = "Foo";

 

Another option could be, if you're not really using it as a GameObject (or less often than as a 'Text' type), simply change the variable type to Text, and drag n drop it again in the inspector.