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Get user's name in Unity using GUILayout.TextField()
I'm a beginner in unity and I want to get a user's name after my game ends, so I can save his score. To do this, I found out you use GUILayout.TextField(). I looked it up and made a C# script using it but for some kind of reason it gives me a compiler error. Here is the script:
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
public class NameGUI : MonoBehaviour {
public string PlayerName = "Name Here";
void OnGUI(){
PlayerName = GUILayout.TextField (new Rect(0, 0, 200, 20), PlayerName);
}
}
And it gives me this error message:
*The best overloaded method match for 'UnityEngine.GUILayout.TextField(string, params UnityEngine.GUILayoutOption[])' has some invalid arguments
Argument 1: Cannot convert from 'UnityEngine.Rect to string'
Argument 2: Cannot convert from 'string' to 'UnityEngine.GUILayoutOption[]'*
I would really appreciate your help. If you have any questions, you can simply ask.
When you use any method of the Unity API you should first check the documentation which usually list all overloads with their parameters. Or just use a proper IDE (like Visual Studio) which tells you right away what overloads are available once you write the opening bracket:
So just use:
PlayerName = GUILayout.TextField(PlayerName);
However if you prefer to specify the Rect manually, you have to use the GUI version:
PlayerName = GUI.TextField (new Rect(0, 0, 200, 20), PlayerName);
It worked! Sorry for taking your time but thank you.
