Is there a way to pass an message from a gameobject script to gui script in another gameobject (SOLVED)

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Came to a rather interesting behavior.
I couldnt sent a direct message from my main.script directly to a board.gui_script…script.
I had to pass the message from main_script to board.script.
Can somebody shine a light on this message flow. Am i just making message passing mistake here or thats how its supposed to be? I’m not sure this was explained in the Message passing documentation.

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I’ve not fully worked with message passing yet. Have you tried the methods described here?

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From my understanding on the way its organized, a script attached to a gameobject can be referenced by an id. The scripts assigned to gui lives as part of the containing gameobject and is considered internal. I dont see an id property on the gui object which tells me how to reference it through a message path. I’ll certainly look at the manual for clarity. Thanks for the resource.

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Could you upload an empty project with a sample of what you mean?

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The gui script can be referenced by the component id. If you call the game object “my_object” and the gui component “my_gui” you can address it with “my_object#my_gui” (assuming the sender is in the same collection).

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Thanks, I’ll try that out.

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Thanks Brian. I’ll see what i can do.

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Works. I ended up using the script attached to gameobjects hold the actual values/properties and then send a message to the gui script to perform ui binding. Gui script only stores references to the nodes.
The main script is referenced as #script and gui as #gui. I think this is the default names within this scope.
I should say that the gui is inside the gameobject.

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