How do i access Text Object with the new UI???

Hi there, i am currently using the open beta of V. 4.6 and i am in a predicament because i need to access the Text area of several text objects from the new 4.6 beta but i am totally clueless! i have tried to get access to the Text (Script) in MonoDevelop without any luck, and i have tried using guiText without any luck... what am i doing wrong??? and yes i need to modify some text inside the UI Text object in runtime in order for the player(s) to get a better experience Thanks for any kind of help i can get.

 

I'm not sure it's the absolute best way to do it (I wish we could bind a public property to Text like we can do for sliders), but I do it like this:

Code (csharp):

1. using UnityEngine.UI;

Code (csharp):

1. public Text mytext;

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. void Start () {
3.  
4.         mytext.text = "Hello world";
5.  
6.     }
7.  

Then in Inspector choose the right Text object for the public mytext field.

 

Melang - Seriously thank you so much, i should have known that but i didn't even remotely think of that solution :O
You're awesome Thank you so much for your help
Cheers,

 

I missed that as well and was assuming the UI collections were included with the UnityEngine. Thanks for chipping in.

 

Code (JavaScript):

1. var theTextComponent : UI.Text;
2.  
3. function WriteToTextComponentTextField () {
4.      theTextComponent.text = "This is the actual field."
5. }

 

THANK YOU! I normally only see C# codes, but you actually gave the JS. Which is nice since that's all I am using for my project!

 

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