GUIText replacement?

Question

Alright so I'm learning unity right now and I opened my game this morning and ran into this error code

Assets\Standard Assets\Utility\SimpleActivatorMenu.cs(11,16): error CS0619: 
'GUIText' is obsolete: 'GUIText has been removed. Use UI.Text instead.'

I have tried replacing GUIText with UI.Text however that lead to a different error messages of:

Assets\Standard Assets\Utility\SimpleActivatorMenu.cs(11,16): error CS0246:
The type or namespace name 'UI' could not be found (are you missing a using
directive or an assembly reference?)

or

Assets\Standard Assets\Utility\SimpleActivatorMenu.cs(11,16): error CS0246:
The type or namespace name 'UIText' could not be found (are you missing a using
directive or an assembly reference?)

Can anybody help me out here?

Does this answer your question? [GUIText is deprecated, so what should I use instead of it?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47447542/guitext-is-deprecated-so-what-should-i-use-instead-of-it) — Kale_Surfer_Dude, Apr 24 '20 at 19:23

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 24 '20 at 19:23

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You cannot simply replace GUIText with Text unfortunately. Check this answer out:

GUIText is deprecated, so what should I use instead of it?

answered Apr 24 '20 at 19:23

Kale_Surfer_Dude

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 19 '20 at 18:00

you can just replace it using Text from UnityEngine.UI

Here's an example:

using UnityEngine.UI;

namespace YourNameSpace.Utility
{
    public class YourClass : MonoBehaviour
    {
        public Text myText;

        void Start()
        {
          myText.text = "Your text here";
        }

    }
}

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 10 '21 at 22:18

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You should fallow these steps

adding "using UnityEngine.UI;" begining of .cs file
change all GUIText to Text.

answered Mar 10 '21 at 22:18

Emre Gürses

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 28 '22 at 08:02

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Add this line :

using UnityEngine.UI;

and then replace :

GUIText with Text

answered Dec 28 '22 at 08:02

Abhijeet Kudche

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GUIText replacement?

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