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Joseph Marino Tripp
Joseph Marino Tripp

Reputation: 63

Change color of text during runtime (Unity)?

I have a GameObject embedded inside my Canvas that has a "Text (Script)" Component. I wish to alter the color.a attribute during runtime of that element. Does anybody have an idea of how to do it? I can't seem to access it with any GetComponent<Type> () command.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 49830

Answers (5)

Codemaker2015
Codemaker2015

Reputation: 1

You can use color attribute to provide color for the text.

It can be done by two ways -> using the color static attributes and color class constructor.

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
using UnityEngine.UI;

public class ColorDemo : MonoBehaviour {

    [SerializeField]
    Text infoText;

    void Start () {
       infoText.text = "Hello World";
       infoText.color = Color.red; //Red color using Color class
       //Red color using hex value. (255,0,0) => 255/255, 0/255, 0/255) => (1,0,0)
       infoText.color = new Color(1f, 0f, 0f); 
       // Color with opacity value. 1 means opaque and 0 means transparent.
       infoText.color = new Color(1f, 0f, 0f, 0.5f); 
    }
}

Upvotes: 0

Tehmina Aslam
Tehmina Aslam

Reputation: 47

public Text myText;

Attach this to the UI component of text in Hierarchy 

myText.color = Color.green;
myText.text = "Enter anything, will display in UI Text";

Upvotes: 4

Sanath Bharadwaj
Sanath Bharadwaj

Reputation: 763

Well if you want to change R,G,B or A components of the color of the text you can do it this way:

Public Text text;
float r=0.2f,g=0.3f,b=0.7f,a=0.6f;

void Start()
{
  text=gameobject.GetComponent<Text>();
  text.color= new Color(r,g,b,a);
}

Upvotes: 7

Huacanacha
Huacanacha

Reputation: 1161

Use CrossFadeAlpha. See link for usage.

Upvotes: 0

Dave
Dave

Reputation: 2842

As far as I know you have to assign new Color to text.color. You can make your own color to assign or use one of the standard colors:

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;
using System.Collections;

public class test : MonoBehaviour {

public Text text;

void Start () 

    {
       text = gameObject.GetComponent<Text> ();
       text.color = Color.white;
    }
}

Upvotes: 2

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