Get user's name in Unity using GUILayout.TextField()

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1

I’m a beginner in unity and I want to get a user’s name after my game ends, so I can save his score. To do this, I found out you use GUILayout.TextField(). I looked it up and made a C# script using it but for some kind of reason it gives me a compiler error. Here is the script:

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class NameGUI : MonoBehaviour {

	public string PlayerName = "Name Here";

	void OnGUI(){
		PlayerName = GUILayout.TextField (new Rect(0, 0, 200, 20), PlayerName);
	}
}

And it gives me this error message:

*The best overloaded method match for ‘UnityEngine.GUILayout.TextField(string, params UnityEngine.GUILayoutOption)’ has some invalid arguments

Argument 1: Cannot convert from ‘UnityEngine.Rect to string’

Argument 2: Cannot convert from ‘string’ to ‘UnityEngine.GUILayoutOption’*

I would really appreciate your help.
If you have any questions, you can simply ask.

2

@Bunny83 Please help!

3

When you use any method of the Unity API you should first check the documentation which usually list all overloads with their parameters. Or just use a proper IDE (like Visual Studio) which tells you right away what overloads are available once you write the opening bracket:

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So just use:

PlayerName = GUILayout.TextField(PlayerName);

However if you prefer to specify the Rect manually, you have to use the GUI version:

PlayerName = GUI.TextField (new Rect(0, 0, 200, 20), PlayerName);
4

It worked! Sorry for taking your time but thank you.