[Solved] public Text text not working

Delaney_Dawn_Harper · December 31, 2016, 9:18am

I am trying to create my own text based game that functions similarly to this so I can practice. I am running into an issue. I have added my UityEngine.UI, but my public Text text defalcation is not turning blue or being recognized. I haven’t gotten very far into my story line. The errors that are popping up are in the screen shot.

I am confused on where I have not set an instance, maybe I am misunderstanding how an instance works?
Line 7

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https://gist.github.com/delaneyharper/9cbf9c773a61b63b9ac292ecd066c91d

gistfile1.txt

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

public class TextController : MonoBehaviour {

	public Text text
	
	private enum Choices {tent_0, tent_1, campground_0, campground_1, mainpath_0,mainpath_1, mainpath_2, mainpath_3, mainpath_4,
						  mainpath_5, mainpath_6, mainpath_7, mainpath_killed, npc_freak_1, npc_freak_2, npc_freak_roommate,

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Thank you

BlackPhi · December 31, 2016, 9:47am

I don’t know if it is an artefact of the way you copied your code, but line 7, where text is declared, is missing a semicolon.

Other than that, have you dragged the Text object into the field in the Unity Inspector? Leaving that empty is a common cause of the null reference error.

Delaney_Dawn_Harper · December 31, 2016, 7:16pm

I definitely did not drag the text object into the inspector field. I mustve not written down that step. Thank you.