Getting the text from UIInput

Questions & Answers
1

I have an area for the user to enter their name, which I then want to store for later usage. To do this I have a UIInput called ‘NameInput’ which has a label called ‘label’ that should hold the name they have entered.

I’m pretty new with Unity so I have no idea how I would go about getting the text in the label. I know that I need to use GetComponent (i think) but I’m not sure on how to use it. Does anyone have a nice example I can use for C# or if you could post the code with an explanation of how to get it that would be great.

2

There are several ways, the most easy on probably is using the text component of UIInput, like:

string textYouTyped = myInputField.GetComponent<UIInput>().text;

Where myInputField does reference the input widget.

Also, check the official NGUI forum where you’ll find more on this specific plugin.