Get a list of scripts attached to an object?

Unity Engine
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Hi, I’m wondering what syntax I need to use to find out which scripts are attached to a given GameObject.

Question is about as simple as what’s on the tin, I think.

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var scripts = GetComponents (MonoBehaviour);

–Eric

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GetComponent() is also useful, depending on if you want all Components or just MonoBehaviours.

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The question was about finding all attached scripts, though. The point being you can’t have scripts attached to objects that aren’t derived from MonoBehaviour.

–Eric

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Thanks for the advice, but, when I try this, it throws the error “‘MonoBehaviour’ is a type, which is not valid in the given context”. I threw this inside Start(), for reference.

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Works fine here.

–Eric

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This is my entire script, testing various things. All throw the error at the same place. Am I missing a namespace or something?

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Somehow I doubt that :wink:

It should be either:

var scripts = GetComponents<MonoBehaviour>();

or

var scripts = GetComponents(typeof(MonoBehaviour));

I recommend using the first version; it will make your life a little easier.

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I wouldn’t have posted it if it didn’t work, nor would I say it works fine if it didn’t. :wink: I wasn’t posting C#, though.

–Eric

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Welllllll if you’re a moderator you should be aware of the “Code (CSharp)” header that the code tag defaults to AND that all the cool kids use C# these days anyway. :stuck_out_tongue:

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You’re right about one of those two things. :wink: I wasn’t paying attention to the code tag header. Although it should be fairly obvious from the code itself.

–Eric

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To be honest if you added in a typeof operator, that code would be valid C# code as well. and seeing as most code on this forum is C# (unless Javascript was explicitly asked for) and forgetting a typeof is something I do from time to time, its more likely that people will simply think that code is C# with a typo.

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It would not work with a typeof, there’d be a cast missing.

@Eric5h5 , OP doesn’t know how to grab MonoBehaviours off a gameObject. You can’t assume that they’ll tell C# and UnityScript apart at a glance.

With Unity shifting all tutorials and docs to C#, posting advice to obvious beginners in UnityScript is not a great idea. Most of the time you’ll be causing unnecessary confusion.

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The OP has been around since 2015; I wouldn’t make any assumptions about beginners or not just based on this question. The only confusion was that I neglected to use the correct code tag header.

–Eric

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Your war neads to be an array like:

var[] varName = GetComponents<MonoBehavior>()

//then you can use the first script on your game object with:

varName[0]
//the second
varName[1]
//just like an array
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Please don’t necro post; this thread is over 6 years old and has already been resolved above with code that works/compiles. Your suggestion is wrong and won’t compile. You don’t use “var[ ]” you’d use “var” and “MonoBehavior” is spelt “MonoBehaviour”.

Thanks.

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