How to edit UI Text from script

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Hi! I've got a problem with editing new UI Text from script. I attached this (part of) script to my UI Text gameObject:

 Text score;
 
 void Start()
 {
     score = GetComponent<Text>();
     score.text += objects.Player_Score;
 }

and I received this compilation fail:

Assets/Scripts/Menu/gameOverScoreDisplay.cs(6,9): error CS0246: The type or namespace name `Text' could not be found. Are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?

What should I do to use 'Text' type in my scripts? I saw the same part of script in the official Unity video (LINK)... Yes, I've got the newest Unity update (4.6).

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Answer by Deadcow_ · Dec 06, 2014 at 04:36 PM

You need to put reference to namespace, where new UI classes contains:

 using UnityEngine.UI;

Or you also can refer to this type as

 UnityEngine.UI.Text score;

and

 score = GetComponent<UnityEngine.UI.Text>();

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Team_26 · Dec 06, 2014 at 04:51 PM 0

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Thank you.

MuradD · Mar 02, 2016 at 02:37 PM 0

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can you please help me with this in JS ? am new and not enough tutorials about this.

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Answer by dikabeast · Dec 06, 2014 at 07:08 PM

Maybe you forget adding using UI

 using UnityEngine.UI;

About editing text in UI from script you can see here : http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/795069/46-ui-accessing-text-in-image-inside-canvas-via-c.html

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Answer by yoppuyoppu · Aug 08, 2017 at 08:44 PM

If you're having trouble using JS, try the following:

 // at the top of your code where you declare variables
 var score: UnityEngine.UI.Text;

 // no need to do anything inside Start() unless you would like to set an initial value

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