Get an object's name

Unity Engine
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As always apologies if this is a repost, but I’ve search the forums and the script reference and come up empty.

What I’d like to do is make a GameObject aware of its name as assigned to it in the scene editor. Is this possible?

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if(GUILayout.Button("Click me"))
{
	Debug.Log(this.gameObject.name);
}

put this in an OnGUI() function on the gameObject

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Get used to using the scripting class list. This link shows what you get when you search for “name”. It shows you what you need and oh so much more.

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Hot, thanks folks.

Vimalakirti: yeah, I did a search for name, but it doesn’t list the GameObject.name field. Apparently, because it’s not a field of GameObject, which is I guess what was confusing me. Rather it appears to be inherited from Object, which is strange because I was under the impression Object was defined in mono, not Unity.

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System.Object is defined in Mono (actually, the .NET API); UnityEngine.Object is defined by Unity :-/ Which you get depends on what ‘using’ statements you have and/or the order they’re in…

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Oh wonderful.

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There’s a System.Object which is the same as object, and Object from UnityEngine. They shouldn’t interfere, and most intelligent autocomplete won’t autocomplete the wrong thing :slight_smile:

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Well sure, but just because you can get something to work doesn’t mean it’s well designed.