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Whats the difference between public and static variable?
As question says whats the difference?
static - the same variable is shared by all instances of the class that are created, and can be private, protected or public.
public - a seperate variable for each instance of the class, and it is visible and accessible from outside of the class.
Very rapid and useful response thank you very much :-)
How would you access static variables from another script? I've tried scriptName.variable but it doesn't work.
@jellyberg: Is your static variable public? This answer might be a bit misleading. The OP compares a public variable to a static variable which makes no sense since static and public are two different things.
static means there's only one (static) version of a variable which belong to the class and not to a specific instance.
public is an access modifier which controls the visibility of members.
To access a variable from outside a class the variable needs to be public.
@Bunny83 Ah right, so I would declare my variable with public and static before it - thanks, that works perfectly!
As i undertand it :
- a public variable will be accessible by other scripts
- a private variable will not be accessible by other scripts
public & private var are unique for a script instance.
- a static variable will be shared betwenn all the instances of your script.
For more details : http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/47565/public-private-and-static-variables-in-js
