How to find TextElement Object iin script? I tried to find it through this.app.root.findbyname or tag but it is returning null. PS: the text element is child of another object

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I tried to find it through this.app.root.findbyname or tag but it is returning null. PS: the text element is child of another object.

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you could use an attribute

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how? Can you please elaborate some more.

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okay I understood. Basically what I want to do is to change a text element from scriptI don’t want to add it as an attribute because then I have to add it as a reference in all objects which is time consuming

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Hi @Geniteam,

Could you share an example why findByName or findByTag didn’t work for you?

Here is the syntax:

var entity = this.app.root.findbyName('MyTextElementName');

var entities = this.app.root.findbyTag('MyTextElements');

The 2nd method will return an array with all entities that have this tag assigned.

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Since the text element is a child you have to search first the parent element
this.app.root.findByName(‘parent’).findByName(‘child’)
if it’s an attribute as a script
this.app.root.findByName(‘entity’).script.nameofScipt.yourtextvariable = newvalue;

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@ayrin actually .findByName() method also searches the children of the node. Since it is called on the root, it will look for that name among all the entities in the scene tree. Looking for a parent first will simply narrow down the search, in case you have a conflicting name somewhere else in the tree and you want to exclude it from the search.

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True, but it’s pretty common to have conflict with names. Usually if it’s a child of entity and the script is in the main entity i use this,entity.findByName() to search in the childs.