referencing a component of a gameobject

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i have looked and have been unable to find the solution to my current problem or if i found it i didn't understand it. basically i am trying to call up the State of a gameobject called hinge in the hierarchy. instead what i get is "null" what am i doing wrong?

 #pragma strict
     
     var Chest : GameObject;
     private var chestState : Component;
     
     function Start ()
     {
         Chest = GameObject.Find("Hinge");
         chestState = Chest.GetComponent("State");
         print(Chest);
         print(chestState);
     }
     
     function Update ()
     {
         Debug.Log(chestState);
     }
     
     function Raise()
     {
         if(chestState ==  "open")
         {
             animation.Play("Raise");
         }
     }

state refers to a section of script on the other object

 public enum State
         {
             open,
             close,
             inbetween
         }

Answer 1

State is an enum, not a class.

You need to get the Class Instance/Script State is part of, that is the component.

Then you can address things on that class instance like any other object.

Additionally, I don't know Unityscript well but it seems to me that State is an Enum definition and not a field, I don't think you can use it the way you are trying to anyway...

Done right, in C# it would look something like this:

File StateHolder.cs:

 public class StateHolder:MonoBehaviour {
      public enum State
         {
            open,
            close,
            inbetween
         }
 
     public State myState = State.open;
 
    
 
     ... etc
 }

File StateGetter.cs

 public class StateGetter:MonoBehaviour {
          
       void Start() {
         Chest = GameObject.Find("Hinge");
         StateHolder chestState = Chest.GetComponent<StateHolder>();
         print(Chest);
         print(chestState.myState);
 
     }
 
 }

referencing a component of a gameobject

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