Text on button click command

Hi, I posted this thread in a different area at first because I thought it was appropriate in that area, but now having seen this section I think things will be a little bit more beginner friendly for me.

Basically what I want my game to be is a random generator life simulator similar to games like Instlife and Bitlife.

I've got my layout sorted but I don't understand the coding much at all, I've seen a lot of tutorials on YouTube and unity and it hasn't really gotten me any further then altering the aesthetics of my UI (i.e changing colours etc)

I think have my random generation code but I don't understand how to make the results of the random generation appear in my text box on screen. (obviously I would attach the finished script to a button)

 

private Text myText;

myText = GameObject.Find("MyTextComponent").GetComponent<Text>();
myText.text = myRandomNumber.ToString();

 

Hi, I already have this code written out but it says there are errors and I don't understand why

Code (CSharp):

1. using System.Collections;
2. using System.Collections.Generic;
3. using UnityEngine;
4.  
5. public class ButtonScript : MonoBehaviour
6. {
7.     public Text MainText;
8.     public Button button;
9.     public bool ButtonClick;
10.  
11.  
12.     // Start is called before the first frame update
13.     void Start()
14.     {
15.         MainText = "";
16.     }
17.  
18.     // Update is called once per frame
19.     void Update()
20.     {
21.         if (ButtonClick = true) ;
22.  
23.         { var list = new List<string> { "1", "2", "3" };
24.             int randomIndex = Random.Range(0, list.Count);
25.             Debug.Log(list[randomIndex]); }
26.         Writeline = LinkedList; {in maintext};
27.      
28.     }
29. }
30.  

Please not the numbers in the list will not be numbers in the finished project, I have only used numbers for simplicity for testing.

 

I believe you need MainText.text = "";

Also, please post your errors. And your syntax looks to be incorrect, I'm not familiar with {in maintext} and a few other portions of your code.

 

I have absolutely no idea what to do with it in all honestly, half the code is from people here and the other portion in from tutorials online. All I want to do is when my button is clicked have my program randomly pick a string from a list and put it in my main text box on screen

 

You would want to replace your code with the code that I suggested. It would get rid of one of your errors. But honestly, you would want to take the advice on your other post (and please don't multipost) and learn C# outside of Unity first.