constant error "timer has no receiver"

[macdude2_1]

I am trying to make a program so when the my player touches an object, it says, “you added time” and adds two seconds to the time.

here is the script attached to the cube that I am trying to get to activate this

function OnTriggerEnter(other:Collider)
{
// if our trigger is touching an object with tag “Player”
if(other.gameObject.CompareTag(“Player”))
{
// send a message to that object telling it to take damage
// messages are like function calls,
// only we don’t need to know any specifics about the object who is receiving it
// (this is a good thing)
other.gameObject.SendMessage(“Timer”, null);
}
}

this is the script to receive it attached to the same game object:

private var startTime;
private var restSeconds : int;
private var roundedRestSeconds : int;
private var displaySeconds : int;
private var displayMinutes : int;

var countDownSeconds : int;

function Awake() {
startTime = Time.time;
}

function OnGUI () {
//make sure that your time is based on when this script was first called
//instead of when your game started
var guiTime = Time.time - startTime;

restSeconds = countDownSeconds - (guiTime);

//display messages or whatever here -->do stuff based on your timer
if (restSeconds == 60) {
print (“One Minute Left”);
}
if (restSeconds == 0) {
print(“Gameover”);

}
//display the timer
roundedRestSeconds = Mathf.CeilToInt(restSeconds);
displaySeconds = roundedRestSeconds % 60;
displayMinutes = roundedRestSeconds / 60;

text = String.Format (“{0:00}:{1:00}”, displayMinutes, displaySeconds);
GUI.Label (Rect (250, -5, 100, 30), text);
}

function timer()
{
print(“you added time”);
}

Here is the message I am sending:

class MessageTimer extends Message
{
function MessageTimer()
{
super(“player”);
}
}

The message is sending, but I get an error that it has no receiver. I can’t even get it to print “you added time”.

I have another message that works, so I am not sure what is going on. Thanks for any help, I am new to unity and loving it! (aside from error messages )

[AkilaeTribe]

This is scripting relevant.

This error message comes when you use SendMessage to send a message to a game object / component…but this game object, or this component, has any message of the same name you wrote.

If component : if no such function present, error message.
If game object, if no such function present in any of all of its scripts, error message.

other.gameObject.SendMessage(“Timer”, null);

No such function as “Timer” in the game object.

[macdude2_1]

but the function “Timer” is in my timer script attached to a game object. It seems like it should work.

[Vicenti]

No, the function “timer” is in your timer script. There’s no function “Timer”.

Capitalization is important, yo.

[macdude2_1]

Thanks guys, I realized that I was sending my message to only one game object when what I really wanted to do was send it to all my game objects.