Display time on GUIText C#

Questions & Answers
1

I have this script and i am getting CS0119, CS1502 and CS1503 errors!
CS0119 Expression denotes a type…
CS1502 The best overloaded method…
CS1503 Arguement #1 cannot convert ‘object’…

	void Update () {
		GetComponent(GUIText).text = Time.time.ToString("0.0");
	}

I want to be able to put this script in to any GUIText component without having to look for the object

Thank you

2

In C# you want to do:

GetComponent<GUIText>().text = Time.time.ToString("0.0");

Note that the game object provides you a shortcut for guiText like it does for transform, renderer, and others, so you can do:

guiText.text = Time.time.ToString("0.0");

The issue is that the return from type from the form of GetComponent() you used is ‘object’. You could also solve this by casting your original GetComponent() call.