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FRP7
FRP7

Reputation: 81

What is the best way to convert a UI text to string in Unity (C#)?

i'm trying to make a code that changes the text of the UI by a string variable that's in another function but i get this

error: Assets/Scripts/ChangeQuestion1.cs(15,26): error CS0029: Cannot implicitly convert type UnityEngine.UI.Text' tostring

What is the best way to convert a UI text to a string? I'm sorry if this question sound noobish. Here's the code:

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

public class ChangeQuestion1 : MonoBehaviour {

    public GameObject databaseinterfaceinstance;

    public Text Question1;
    // Use this for initialization
    void Start () {
        databaseinterfaceinstance = GameObject.FindWithTag("DatabaseInterface").GetComponent<GameObject>();
        Question1 = gameObject.GetComponent<Text>();
        Question1.text = Question1;
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update () {

    }
}

UPDATE:

I already solved the problem, it was more complicated than that. The variable i was trying to print in canvas was from a script to connect with a database and i forgot to call some functions too.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 5743

Answers (1)

Chik3r
Chik3r

Reputation: 380

Question1.text is of type string, and you're trying to set its value to Question1, whose type is UnityEngine.UI.Text. You can only set its value to be a string, so it should be: 

Question1.text = yourText;

or

Question1.text = "Your text goes here";

This is how it would look like in your code:

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

public class ChangeQuestion1 : MonoBehaviour {

    public GameObject databaseinterfaceinstance;

    public Text Question1;
    public string yourText = "Your text goes here";
    // Use this for initialization
    void Start () {
        databaseinterfaceinstance = GameObject.FindWithTag("DatabaseInterface").GetComponent<GameObject>();
        Question1 = gameObject.GetComponent<Text>();
        Question1.text = yourText;
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update () {

    }
}

Upvotes: 3

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