Change text programmatically

Are there any errors? This is definitely possible. Seeing your code may help and is the text using dynamic text on the component?

I spent an hour debugging it and ended up creating 12 text objects one for each text I had to show and just hiding/showing the ones I needed instead of dynamically changing the text. Do I have to set any special property on the text object for it to work?

I’m on my phone but I probably just do like
Var textObject = scene.getChild(0);
textObject.text = “my text”;

//but the below hides it
textObject.enabled = false;

the property is .text, I'm guessing you are only getting the scene object though based on the code, not the actual text component of the scene object.

Easiest way is to specifically import the component in your script like:

//@input Component.Text myText

then access it with script.myText

so it would be script.myText.text = "new text"

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or use .getComponent("Component.Text") off of that scene object instead of specifcally importing a text component directly.

thanks I'll give it a try

How did it go Marco?

Keep us updated so we know if Brandon's response solved your issue or not :)

Thanks guys I'll let you know once I try. Been traveling.

Hey guys,

 In both cases I got:

13:43:46 [Scenarium] TypeError: cannot write property 'text' of null
at [anon] (Script.js:8) preventsyield

 Any ideas why?

thanks

the script is added to the Forehead object

I was able to make it work now like this

var sceneObj = script.getSceneObject();

var textObjt = sceneObj.getChild(0).getComponent("Component.Text")

textObjt.text = "new text"

I was also able now to do 

//@input Component.Text myText

script.myText.text = "new text"

by linking the script text component.

I think the documentation should be more clear on the steps to make this work...