Trying to access components of a prefab

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1

I have a UI element that I want to dynamically add panels to. The panel is a prefab with two text fields inside it.

I created a class for the prefab, and the two text components are assigned to it in the inspector :

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;
using System.Collections;

public class ListController : MonoBehaviour {

    public Text TextName, TextDescription;

}

I then have a function which can instantiate the prefab, but im not able to access the components?

    void myFunction()
    {
        GameObject newItemInList = Instantiate( myPrefab ) as GameObject;
        ListController controller = newItemInList.GetComponent();
        controller.TextName.text = "foo";
        controller.TextDescription.text = "bar";
    }

Apparently this is not an acceptable usage of GetComponent(); ? Ive written it this way cause I saw it used like this in a tutorial, only mine is saying GetComponent in this context “cannot be inferred from the usage”

2

@MorganFavre

This

ListController controller = newItemInList.GetComponent();

was incorrect. Also in the code below I added some debugging for you unstil you are satisfied with everyting

void myFunction()
{
    GameObject newItemInList = Instantiate( myPrefab ) as GameObject;
    ListController controller = newItemInList.GetComponent<ListController>();
    if (controller != null)
    {
        if (controller.TextName != null)
        {
            controller.TextName.text = "foo";
        }
        else
        {
            Debug.LogWarning("controller.TextName is null");
        }
        if (controller.TextDescription != null)
        {
            controller.TextDescription.text = "bar";
        }
        else
        {
            Debug.LogWarning("controller.TextDescription is null");
        }
    }
    else
    {
        Debug.LogWarning("controller is null");
    }
}