# String to GUI Text??
**URL:** https://discussions.unity.com/t/string-to-gui-text/468236
**Category:** Scripting
**Tags:** Scripting
**Created:** [February 15, 2012, 8:04pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/string-to-gui-text/468236 "2012-02-15T20:04:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@All\_American](https://discussions.unity.com/u/All_American)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2012, 8:04pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/string-to-gui-text/468236/1 "2012-02-15T20:04:42Z")
I am trying to get a refernce of a number to display with GUI text, I am getting an error-
“Cannot implicitly convert type `string' to `UnityEngine.GUIText”
```auto
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public GUIText Roundsleft;
void UpDate()
{
Roundsleft = (Player.RoundsLeft).ToString("Rounds Left:");
}
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/
```
How else would I do this???
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### Author:  [@GargerathSunman](https://discussions.unity.com/u/GargerathSunman)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2012, 8:08pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/string-to-gui-text/468236/2 "2012-02-15T20:08:58Z")
Roundsleft.text = (Player.RoundsLeft).ToString(“Rounds Left:”);
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### Author:  [@anon\_31134026](https://discussions.unity.com/u/anon_31134026)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2012, 8:09pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/string-to-gui-text/468236/3 "2012-02-15T20:09:45Z")
Roundsleft.text
is what you’re looking for.
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### Author:  [@All\_American](https://discussions.unity.com/u/All_American)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2012, 8:20pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/string-to-gui-text/468236/4 "2012-02-15T20:20:17Z")
Tried it, the numbers are not showing.
Thanks
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### Author:  [@GargerathSunman](https://discussions.unity.com/u/GargerathSunman)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2012, 8:22pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/string-to-gui-text/468236/5 "2012-02-15T20:22:31Z")
That’s because your code for what you display doesn’t seem to be correct either, not just the link to the text variable.
Roundsleft.text = "Rounds Left: " + Player.RoundsLeft.ToString();
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### Author:  [@All\_American](https://discussions.unity.com/u/All_American)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2012, 8:26pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/string-to-gui-text/468236/6 "2012-02-15T20:26:03Z")
That didn’t do it either, I tried that before, But I didn’t have the .text in there. This works with a GUI Label, but I want to be able to control where it is seen…
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### Author:  [@GargerathSunman](https://discussions.unity.com/u/GargerathSunman)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2012, 8:31pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/string-to-gui-text/468236/7 "2012-02-15T20:31:50Z")
If it’s a GUIText object, you can move it around on the screen. You can also use a GUI.Label that gives you an exact control of what pixels on screen show the label.
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### Author:  [@All\_American](https://discussions.unity.com/u/All_American)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2012, 8:36pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/string-to-gui-text/468236/8 "2012-02-15T20:36:14Z")
I know, but the GUI Text isn’t showing the numbers like the label, and the label is on every camera and I was told that you can not stop the rendering on OnGUI labels.
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### Author:  [@All\_American](https://discussions.unity.com/u/All_American)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2012, 8:47pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/string-to-gui-text/468236/9 "2012-02-15T20:47:17Z")
I got it to show, by putting it in the start function but it isn’t counting down on firing??
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### Author:  [@All\_American](https://discussions.unity.com/u/All_American)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2012, 8:53pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/string-to-gui-text/468236/10 "2012-02-15T20:53:55Z")
I go it to work, by putting it in OnGUI, I didn’t realize I had to do that with GUIText…
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### Author:  [@renman3000](https://discussions.unity.com/u/renman3000)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2012, 8:59pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/string-to-gui-text/468236/11 "2012-02-15T20:59:23Z")
Your Update was UpDate
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### Author:  [@All\_American](https://discussions.unity.com/u/All_American)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2012, 9:13pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/string-to-gui-text/468236/12 "2012-02-15T21:13:57Z")
Good eye, thanks, now it works in Update…🙂
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### Author:  [@renman3000](https://discussions.unity.com/u/renman3000)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2012, 9:18pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/string-to-gui-text/468236/13 "2012-02-15T21:18:48Z")
🙂 eagle eye they call meh. 🙂