Access guiText from other object.

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1

Hi! Simple question, how do i access a guitext that is attached to a other gameObject than the script. The gameObject name is stored in a variable. Thanks in advance!

4

Try this

  1. declare a variable for your object. `var object : GameObject;`
  2. declare a variable for the GUIText. `var text : GUIText;`
  3. Find the object you need by using GameObject.Find("thename"). object=GameObject.Find("name");
  4. Access the GUIText component of this GameObject. You can use GameObject.GetComponent(). `text=object.GetComponent(GUIText);`
  5. Now you can change or use the text of this GameObject. `var content=text.Text; text.Text="Hello";`
2

Add a variable to the script that needs to access the guitext. The variable should be public so you can assign the guitext to it via the inspector.

public GUIText referencetotext;

When you have set this variable to the guitext you can modify the guitext from your script by using the referencetotext.

void Start()
{
    referencetotext.Text="Hallo";
}
3

In Javascript the script should look like this

var referencetotext : GUIText;
function Start()
{
    referencetotext.Text="Hallo";
}

However I don't have much experience with Javascript so I'm not completely sure.