Problems with transform.parent in unity 4.6

Questions & Answers
1

So i have been working with unity 4.6 since it has the UI new stuff and when beta stopped and there was a stable version (no beta), so
i was making menus and everything was fine, but when i wanted to make my own inventory, i tried to
put the slots (prefabs) to the parent (a panel) and it doesnt work because of this:

Setting the parent of transform which resides in a prefab is disabled to prevent data corruption.

so anything to fix it? and also say “k does not exist in the current context” so here is my code.

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;

public class Inventory : MonoBehaviour {

	public GameObject slots;
	int x = -110;
	int y = 110;
	
	void Start () {

		for(int i = 1; i < 6; i++);
		{
			for(int k = 1; k < 6; k++);
			{
				GameObject slot = (GameObject)Instantiate(slots);
				slots.transform.parent = this.gameObject.transform;
				slot.name - "Slot" + 1 + "." + k;
				slot.GetComponent<RectTransform>().localPosition = new Vector3(x, y, 0);
				x = x + 55;
                            //Right here i get the k does not exist in the current context
				if(k == 4)
				{
					x = -100;
					y = y - 55;
				}
			}
		}
	}
}
2

Line 18, you’re referring to the prefab reference ( slots ) rather than the new instantiated object ( slot ).

Edit: You’re closing the for loops with a semicolon ( ; ).

//Incorrect:
for(int i = 1; i < 6; i++); //The semicolon closes the statement
{
    //Code here is outside of the loop, and will only run once.
    //Since the 'i' variable is part of the loop, it cannot be accessed from here.
}

//Correct:
for(int i = 1; i < 6; i++)
{
    //Code here will execute until 'i' is equal to 6
}

Here’s what your code should look like:

 using UnityEngine;
 using System.Collections;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 
 public class Inventory : MonoBehaviour {
 
     public GameObject slots;
     int x = -110;
     int y = 110;
     
     void Start () {
 
         for(int i = 1; i < 6; i++)
         {
             for(int k = 1; k < 6; k++)
             {
                 GameObject slot = (GameObject)Instantiate(slots);
                 slot.transform.parent = transform;
                 slot.name - "Slot" + 1 + "." + k;
                 slot.GetComponent<RectTransform>().localPosition = new Vector3(x, y, 0);
                 x = x + 55;
                 if(k == 4)
                 {
                     x = -100;
                     y = y - 55;
                 }
             }
         }
     }
 }
3

On line 19, instead of :

slot.name - "Slot" + 1 + "." + k;

might you be trying to do:

slot.name = "Slot" + i.ToString() + "." + k.ToString();