Accessing a 'Raw Image' component in the new UI (Beta 4.6)

Questions & Answers
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I’m really liking the beta UI system, but I’ve just run into an issue. I want to swap out a texture at runtime (making a thumbnail of a screenshot before uploading to the a server), and RawImage appears to be the way to do that. Only trouble is, I’m not sure how to access that component by script. Using ‘RawImage’ comes up red when I try it.

I feel silly not having figured this out, but is it even exposed? If the component name isn’t ‘RawImage’, what is it?

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Ok, solved my problem courtesy of http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/loading-ui-image-by-www-class.263543/

The issue is that RawImage isn’t part of the standard UnityEngine namespace, it’s part of UnityEngine.UI. After adding using UnityEngine.UI; to my script, I now have access to it.

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For those who are scripting in Javascript, remember that you have to use “import” instead of “using”. So the correct manner to do it in Javascript would be :

import UnityEnging.UI;