Player name from Input Field?

Hi there,

How can I get the text from Input Field? I want it to be equal to "this.playerName":

 

You need to access the text from the Text component of the gameObject called Text that is the child of the input field. That's a lot of different types of text, let me show you example of some code to get the information from an Input Field.

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. Text userNameInputText;
3.  
4. void Start() {
5.   userNameInputText = canvas.transform.Find("UserNameInputField/Text").GetComponent<Text>(); //You'll need to put in the actual path in your own hierarchy.
6. }
7.  
8. public void InputYourName() {
9.   playername = userNameInputText.text;
10. }
11.  

 

Pretty sure you can just do InputField.text

 

Unfortunately this didn't worked

Thank you for your effort, I tried it and error came up:

"The name 'canvas' does not exist in the current context"

How can I fix that?

Also, in place "UserNameInputField/Text" I have to put my own path to the Input Field's Text? In my case it looks like that:



So how it should look like in the script?

EDIT:

Ok, now it's working, I have added

Code (CSharp):

1. public GameObject canvas;

then added Canvas 1 (from hierarchy) to the proper place in Inspector and corrected my path:

Code (CSharp):

1. userNameInputText = canvas.transform.Find("InputField/Text").GetComponent<Text>();

Thanks!