I need help i keep geting this unity error? Assets\ScoreTextScript.cs(10,10): error CS0426: The type name 'Text' does not exist in the type 'Text' - visual-studio

Question

So this is my code. Im trying to make it so the coins collected add to the score in the UI.
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;
public class ScoreTextScript : MonoBehaviour
{
Text.Text
coinAmount;
//Use this for initialization
void Start ()
{
text = GetComponent<Text>();
}
//Update is called once per frame
void Update ()
{
text.Text = coinAmount;
}
}
The Text is the error but I don't know how to fix it.
I need help immediately

Answer 1

I think you don't understand how variables work in unity.
First you are declaring a Text.text called coinAmount
In Unity when you are declaring a variable you first have to set the access modifier.
The 2 main are: private and public.
private means your variable will only be accessible in the class you declared it.
public means you can access it from any other class if you make a reference to that script.
Then you need to put the type of your variable.
Here you used Text.text and that's not a type for a variable.
You can set to int, string, etc... If you want to use a Text component in unity do like this:
private Text coinAmount;
Since it's a private variable you can't drag it in the editor. If you want to be able to place a Text component by hand in the editor you can either do:
public Text coinAmount;
//or
[SerializeField] private Text coinAmount; //I'll let you search about SerializeField
In your Start method you are assigning text variable to the Text component this object hold. But text does not exist. If you declare a variable in a method it will only be accessible in this method.
So, what you want is:
private void Start(){
coinAmount = GetComponent<Text>();
}
And lastly i see you want to assign your text to the variable we created earlier. That's useless. You need to create a new variable of type int and assign it to the text value of coinAmount.
To do so:
We will create a new variable right under coinAmount.
public int coinNumber;
And in update we can use it:
private void Update(){
coinAmount.text = coinNumber.ToString(); //.ToString() is used when you want to convert something to a string (which is a type of variable).
}
And there we go everything should work correctly !
The whole code:
private Text coinAmount;
public int coinNumber;
private void Start(){
coinAmount = GetComponent<Text>();
}
private void Update(){
coinAmount.text = coinNumber.ToString(); //.ToString() is used when you want to convert something to a string (which is a type of variable).
}
Hope it helped ! Have a nice day !