Editable text field?

Unity Engine
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Hi all,

I haven’t used Unity in quite a long time (pre 5.0), and with 5.4 coming out soon, what is the best way to make a text field that I can edit freely in?

Thanks

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Using the new Canvas system you can add an Input Field for getting user text input.

http://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/script-InputField.html
http://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/UI.InputField.html

http://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-Canvas.html

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It seems like the purpose is for input/output - will it still work fine just as a text editor? I don’t really need anything to process the text, it just needs to be edited and displayed

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If you don’t require the user input, a Text object would be what you’re looking for.

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/UI.Text.html

From the UI tutorials:

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