Update GUI Component with a script

I feel pretty silly asking this question, but I am just starting with the new GUI and I'd like to be able to update the text in a Text component via script.

How do you get a handle on the component and modify the text that is displayed in the UI? What is displayed when you set the component up is not necessarily what you'd want to display at runtime obviously ...

I have a panel, with a Text component as a child of that panel. I would think I could grab the component and modify the text something like this ...

GetComponent(Text).text="some new text";

but I see nothing like this anywhere in the doco ... can anyone help please?

Edit: the solution is here ... if this is actually documented somewhere, I'd appreciate it if someone could tell me where to go.

http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/777335/46-ui-changing-the-text-component-via-script.html

 

https://unity3d.com/pt/learn/tutorials/modules/beginner/ui/ui-text

Or you can put your text in some variable and call.

like this:

Code (CSharp):

1. public var myText;
2.  
3. function Update()
4. {
5.   myText.text = "test text";
6. }