Notice of breaking change in Unity 2022 for components using Text

[SimonDarksideJ]

From Unity 2022, the UI Extensions will no longer support the older Text component that is being deprecated by Unity, all existing components using Text have been updated to support TextMeshPro (for Unity 2022 ONLY)

How will this affect you?

For Unity versions prior to 2022

There is no change, all components will continue to use the older Text components. TextMeshPro will NOT be supported.

If you wish to use TextMeshPro in versions of Unity prior to 2022, then we recommend making a copy of the component in your project and remove the lines containing matching below, plus any code after the line containing using the old Text component.

#if UNITY_2022_1_OR_NEWER

For Unity 2022 and beyond

Any existing UI using components with the older Text component will need to be manually updated, to remove the old Text component and replace it with the newer TextMeshPro version.

We may look into an automatic upgrade script if this becomes an issue, on request.

Feedback welcome

We hope this doesn't cause too much confusion and if there are any issues or queries, either note them here or log an issue below:

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