Name not saving to or loading from PlayerPrefs

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1

Hi everyone,

I’m creating a game which includes a scoring system. The player can type their name in the input field which will hopefully save along with their score. It should then appear upon load in another scene.

However, I cannot seem to get the name to save and load, and no errors are appearing.

Here is my code:

public class PlayerName : MonoBehaviour
{
    public string nameOfPlayer;

    public Text inputText;
    public Text loadedName;

    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        if (PlayerPrefs.HasKey("Player_Name")) 
        { 
            nameOfPlayer = PlayerPrefs.GetString("Player_Name"); 
        }
            
        //loadedName.text = nameOfPlayer;
        
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        loadedName.text = PlayerPrefs.GetString("Player_Name");
    }


    public void SaveName()
    {
        Debug.Log("name saved");
        PlayerPrefs.SetString("Player_Name", nameOfPlayer);

    }

    public void LoadName()
    {
        if (PlayerPrefs.HasKey("Player_Name"))
        {
            loadedName.text = nameOfPlayer;
        }
        else
        {
            Debug.Log("no name saved");
        }
    }

}

Currently I have submit and load buttons to save and load the name respectively. When I press the submit button, the debug log appears, but when I press load, nothing appears in the text box.

I’m not that familiar with C#, but to me it looks like I have everything I need to save and load the name. Any ideas?

2

It’s simple, you need to do a save after every time you set a key, this is to optimize if you want to set many keys at one time.

PlayerPrefs.Save();