Trying to call a variable from another script in C#

Thanks :) always forget about that.

Now I have this error:

  An object reference is required to access non-static member 

in my update call I'm trying to set a variable

 string result = SearchField.stringToEdit; 

where SearchField.stringToEdit calls a string from the SearchField class.

Have you declared and assigned the SearchField variable?

never $$anonymous$$d, the problem was I was calling the function of SearchField using SearchField.property rather than using the instance name of search.property

Thanks guys :)

oh wait... the error has come back. its saying

 Object reference not set to an instance of an object 

I have a SearchField class with the following:

using UnityEngine; using System.Collections;

public class SearchField : $$anonymous$$onoBehaviour { /properties/

 public string stringToEdit = "Hello World";
 
 /*methods*/

 public string SetResult()
 {
         return stringToEdit;
 }
 
 void OnGUI(){
  stringToEdit = GUI.TextField(new Rect(10, 10, 200, 20), stringToEdit, 25);
 //static function TextField (position : Rect, text : String, maxLength : int) : String
 }}

and then I'm trying to pass the edited string from the search box known as stringToEdit to the CameraPositions class:

using UnityEngine; using System.Collections;

public class CameraPositions : $$anonymous$$onoBehaviour { SearchField search; public Vector3 entry; public string result;

 void Update()
 {
 result = search.stringToEdit;
     if(result ==  "Earth")
     {
         entry.x = -87.37f;
         entry.y = 49.43f;
         entry.z = 20.22f;
     }    
 }

}

the error is pointing to the

     result = search.stringToEdit; 

Your "search" variable is a private variable, do you assign any reference to this variable? i guess not(if that's the whole script). You should either make it public and drag & drop the correct script instance onto the variable, or use GameObject.Find and GetComponent to get the desired script-instance via code.