How to edit UI Text from script

Questions & Answers
1

Hi! I’ve got a problem with editing new UI Text from script. I attached this (part of) script to my UI Text gameObject:

Text score;

void Start()
{
	score = GetComponent<Text>();
	score.text += objects.Player_Score;
}

and I received this compilation fail:

Assets/Scripts/Menu/gameOverScoreDisplay.cs(6,9): error CS0246: The type or namespace name `Text’ could not be found. Are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?

What should I do to use ‘Text’ type in my scripts? I saw the same part of script in the official
Unity video (1)… Yes, I’ve got the newest Unity update (4.6).

3

You need to put reference to namespace, where new UI classes contains:

using UnityEngine.UI;

Or you also can refer to this type as

UnityEngine.UI.Text score;

and

score = GetComponent<UnityEngine.UI.Text>();
2

Maybe you forget adding using UI

using UnityEngine.UI;

About editing text in UI from script you can see here :

4

If you’re having trouble using JS, try the following:

// at the top of your code where you declare variables
var score: UnityEngine.UI.Text;

// no need to do anything inside Start() unless you would like to set an initial value