Disabling a script

Questions & Answers
1

Is there any way to switch (enabled/disabled) a script that is in another GameObject ?

GameObject.Find("/MyGameObject").GetComponent("MyScript").enabled = false; won't work because the script dont have a enabled attribute.

Thanks in advance

2

Scripts attached to objects do have an enabled attribute, in fact. So what you have should work fine assuming there is a script actually attached.

--Eric

5

@Ricky: If you're using C# (which I'm assuming since you're using Visual Studio), you can't use the code as written in the question since GetComponent returns a Component object, which does not have "enabled".

If you cast it to your specific type, you can use enabled. (This also applies to strict javascript for unity iPhone).

GameObject.Find("MyGameObject").GetComponent<MyScript>().enabled = false;

or

MyScript myScript = GameObject.Find( "MyGameObject" ).GetComponent( "MyScript" ) as MyScript.
myScript.enabled = false;

(As an aside, using `.Find()` is really slow, so prefer to hook up connections ahead of time with public fields on your scripts.)

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If you are getting a NullReferenceException you are getting a null returned from the Find or the GetComponent functions.

You should check that the object exists and can be found by that name and that it has a script called MyScript attached.

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@Tetrad Thanks man! Was stuck on this one, your solution worked perfectly. I’m new to programming as well. Appreciate the help.

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I also have this issue. Also, the Visual Studio compiler claims there is no such thing as ".enabled". I do not get null reference exception, I get "'UnityEngine.Component' does not contain a definition for 'enabled'."

Please help!