UI Text C# - Silly question

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1

Hi all,

Got a stupid question…

How do i talk to a UI object? Ive got the below code but I cant see what I’m doing wrong… Any ideas?

using UnityEngine.UI;

 void Start() { 
 theScore = GameObject.Find("Canvas/score");
 GameObject theScore = GetComponent<UnityEngine.UI.Text>();
 theScore.text = "hello";
}
2

Well, you’re setting

theScore = GameObject.Find("Canvas/score");

However, immediately after that you redefine “theScore” variable as a new GameObject and are setting it to the text component of the current GameObject via this line:

 GameObject theScore = GetComponent<UnityEngine.UI.Text>();

I assume what you want to do is something like this:

 Text theScore = GameObject.Find("Canvas/score").GetComponent<Text>();
 theScore.text = "hello";