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Kasie Okpala
Courses Plus Student 314 PointsError in the complier:
Assets/Scripts/ScoreCounter.cs(18,17): error CS0029: Cannot implicitly convert type string' to
UnityEngine.UI.Text'
I keep getting this error although things seem right.
2 Answers
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Joseph Rimar
17,101 PointsYour Error is occurring because you're setting the text to the scoreCounterText variable itself instead of its text property.
//change scoreCounterText = score + "Flies" to...scoreCounterText.text
scoreCounterText.text = score + "Flies";
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Kasie Okpala
Courses Plus Student 314 PointsIt worked! Thanks a lot.
Kasie Okpala
Courses Plus Student 314 PointsKasie Okpala
Courses Plus Student 314 Points//this is my full code
using UnityEngine; using System.Collections; using UnityEngine.UI;
public class ScoreCounter : MonoBehaviour {
}