Text not instantiating under a canvas (unity)

Question

Below is my code for a text I want to spawn under a canvas. Both spawn and I no longer get errors, but the text isn't spawning under the canvas.

        Instantiate(canvasparent);
        Text savescore = Instantiate(score) as Text;
        savescore.transform.SetParent(canvasparent.transform, false);

Answer 1

Remember to capture a reference to the instance of the object when you instantiate it, something like this:

Canvas canvasInstance = Instantiate<Canvas>(canvasPrefab);

Text scoreTextInstance = Instantiate<Text>(scoreTextPrefab);

scoreTextInstance.transform.SetParent(canvasInstance.transform, false);

The code you showed is trying to parent the newly-spawned text to the prefab of the canvas, not the instance of the canvas you've spawned into your scene.

This is probably the most common error I see in Unity code, so be very careful to keep track of which variables refer to spawned instances and which to prefabs.