Help with editing text in-game.

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1

I wish to include a score keeper in my game, but I’m having trouble getting a script to modify the text in a textbox in-game.

Whenever I try to edit the text through a script, I receive this error:
“Type ‘UnityEngine.Component’ does not contain a definition for ‘text’ and no extension method ‘text’ of type ‘UnityEngine.Component’ could be found. Are you missing an assembly reference?”

Here’s my current script if anyone’s wondering:

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;
//Spaceholder
public class ScoreUpdate : MonoBehaviour {


private Component ScoreKeeper;

void Start () {
	ScoreKeeper = GameObject.Find("ScoreKeeper").GetComponent<Text>();
	if (ScoreKeeper == true){
		Debug.Log("I found the scorekeeper!");
		}
	ScoreKeeper.text = "test";	//Test Message

	}
	
void Update () {
	
	//ScoreKeeper.text = "test"; //Not being used.
	
	}
}

If anyone knows what’s wrong, please let me know, a lot of the answers that are already on this site don’t even work for me. Thanks.

2

Yup, the problem is the type of ScoreKeeper which right now is Component. While it is true that Text is a component and thus you can assign it to the ScoreKeeper variable, you cannot access any of the Text methods since it is a more specialized version of the Component class.

To solve it just change the type of the ScoreKeeper variable from Component to Text