Change Button Text ?

Unity Engine
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Hi,

i have a script on my camera which moves the camera to a specific position.
when i klick a button in my game i want to start the movement and change the button text from “move in” to “move out” then the camera ride is over.

I tried to change the text from within the camera script but i just cant access the button text.
In general, is it a good idea to access the button text from within the camera or are there better ways?
How can i change the button text after something happened and change it to something different after clicking it again?

2

Ah, after trying so much its that easy…

GameObject.Find("buttonName").GetComponentInChildren<Text>().text = "la di da";
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Thanks.

4

And if you run into “The type or namespace name ‘Text’ could not be found” - add

using UnityEngine.UI;

(found in unity 4.6 UI "Text" could not bet found? )

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thanks @dichterDichter it works well
but i also want to change the color and font of text can anyone help me out

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bless you for this. Spent a 1/2 hour searching, searching, searching

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Dude, how do you know what to put?(buttonName)

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the name of the button in your scene if you didnt change the name its called Button

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thankuuuu u literally saves me

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cant we do it from unity itself???

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I was able to change the button text in Unity by clicking the down arrow next to “Button” in the Hierarchy menu on the lefthand side of my screen. Once I clicked the down arrow the word “Text” appeared and on the right hand side of my screen in the Inspector. I was then able to edit the text/font/size/color. I hope this helps!

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This is what i have been looking for THANK YOU!

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Yes, we can do that from the engine. However, the poster was asking how to change it in a script.

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:slight_smile: thank you!

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Heres a Script:

using UnityEngine;
using TMPro;

public class SetButtonText : MonoBehaviour
{
[SerializeField] private TextMeshProUGUI buttonText;

void Start()
{
    if (buttonText == null)
    {
        // Try automatically getting the TMP text component from children
        buttonText = GetComponentInChildren<TextMeshProUGUI>();
    }

    if (buttonText != null)
    {
        buttonText.text = "What you want the text to be";
    }
    else
    {
        Debug.LogWarning("No TextMeshProUGUI component found on this button.");
    }
}

}

And once its on the button, scroll down to the script, And for Button Text, set it to 'Text (TMP) and then its all good