Getting Children of CurrentSelectedGameObject

Unity Engine
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Hi all,

A bit stuck here. I am getting a clicked button using the EventSystem. It has a Text component as a Child. I can get the name of the button, but not the text in the child. This is my code.

       if (ButtonClicked  != null)
        {
            Debug.Log(ButtonClicked);
            Debug.Log("The Button Name: " + ButtonClicked.GetComponentInChildren<Button>().name);
            Debug.Log("The Button Text: " + ButtonClicked.GetComponentInChildren<Button>().GetComponentInChildren<Text>().text);
        }

The last line gives a null reference.

Any help is deeply appreciated.

2

Are you trying to get the button info via the eventsystem and without placing a function in each buttons onclick on the inspector?

I would personally point to onclick method to a function in a script via the inspector, like so;

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;

public class ButtonInfo : MonoBehaviour
{
    public void OnClicked(Button button)
    {
        Debug.Log("Button Clicked  = " + button.name + " : Button Text = " + button.transform.GetComponentInChildren<Text>().text);
    }
}
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Hey, you can get the text component of the button by using the transform component. For example:

public void OnClicked(Button button)
{
    Debug.Log("Button Clicked = " + button.name + ":  button text  = " + button.transform.GetChild(0).GetComponent<Text>().text);
}

Hope this helps

-Joshmond

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Thanks for the comments. Some things are so obvious when you think about it. Much appreciated.