What IS a script?

Unity Engine
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In C# i want to make a generic list of scripts, but what is a script in C#?

and how do i hold a reference to a script, what do I declare it?

2

a script is a file that contains 1 or more classes.

Technically its not really a script though its code that really gets compiled through mono.

There isn’t anything else to it, so if you know how to code in C# you already know all of it

3

Script

A script is a text or print. A C# script is a programming text saved as a file used in this case in the Unity Engine. From what I understand, a script can become a part of a “Game Object” once it is attached to a “GameObject”… Therefore you simply right a C# instructions in a script file and save to your assets folder. Drag it to the GameObject which declares it for that object…

Still learning myself…

MageArt hacking Unity…

4

No i’m asking what it’s refereed to as in C# using the unity libary.

as in GameObject, Transform etc the decleration.

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Script has no reference. Script is just another name for code file, though commonly used in a non-compiled environment.

Scripts don’t exist inside the engine in any other form, there is no class script or alike to search or use.

6

What is a script? A little vague!?

MageArt hacking Unity…:sunglasses:

7

Use the script name. For a List of different scripts, I guess you’d have to use Object.

–Eric

8

In response to Eric:

Would one use the file name along with the extensions?

MageArt hacking Unity…

9

The script name is the same as the class name.

A C# script called MyScript:

using UnityEngine;

public class MyScript : MonoBehaviour {

}

Declaring a variable called “someOtherScript” that will refer to that script, from a different C# script:

using UnityEngine;

public class AnotherScript : MonoBehaviour {
	public MyScript someOtherScript;
}

The type is MyScript. You can have an array of MyScript:

MyScript[] someOtherScripts;

Or a List of MyScript:

List<MyScript> someOtherScripts;

As I said, to have an List of a bunch of different scripts, the list type would have to be Object…not sure what else you could use, since they are all different types. There is no “script type”.

–Eric

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You could use List for most user made scripts. But that wouldn’t cover built in Components or user made editor scripts.

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Or scripts that don’t derive from MonoBehaviour, but that’s a good point, since probably the kind of scripts that you’d be adding to a list are likely to be MonoBehaviour anyway.

–Eric

12

This is true, when I hear “script” I usually assume something that extends MonoBehaviour, although that’s obviously not always true.