How can I find a dropdown menu game object from a script?

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Hello all, I’ve created a canvas with a dropdown menu in the editor, it’s there sitting in my Hierarchy window staring at me, but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to reference that from script.

I need to pass the value of the drop down menu to a function so I assume I need SOMETHING.value but I don’t know what that something is. I tried (Dropdown)GameObject.Find("myDropdown") and was told that i can’t convert from a game object to a dropdown :frowning:

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Hi,
I am not sure about your script. Still did you add “using UnityEngine.UI;” to the script. If not add that and check.
If this doesn’t solve your issue, please share your script, so that I will check and help you.
Thanks.

3

I was looking for this answer, I had exactly the same question. But now, how can I retrieve the value from the options instead of the value of the index? Meaning, if in the first option (index is 0) is “This” (string for example)

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@epistomai

You would do it something like that:

 Dropdown uiDropdown = GameObject.Find("myDropdown").GetComponent<Dropdown>();

and then:

string chosenValue = uiDropdown.captionText.text;