Is there any way to change the text in a text object?

Developers API questions
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Hi!

I tried changing the text in a TextV2 object, but was not successful. I am using the websocket API, and the connection works, I’m able to listen to events, get objects details, etc. I noticed, on the browser console, that the text object has a property “text” with a “text” field inside, where the actual data that’s shown is present. But, on the API, this doesn’t appear on the MapObject. I tried doing the following, but wasn’t successful, nothing happened:

this.game = new Game(SPACE_ID, () => Promise.resolve({ apiKey: API_KEY }));
    this.game.connect();
    this.game.subscribeToConnection(async (connected) => {
      console.log("Connected to Gather", connected);
      await this.game.waitForInit();
      await this.game.updateObject("bG_-YwCP495tSI48geWzu", "F8Qu", { text: { text: "Hello World" } }, true)
    });
  }

Are there any ways I could do this? It would be awesome to change a text on our office dynamically, to show progress to our team through it.

Thank you!

2

Hey, we haven’t exposed the text edit functionality through the WebSocket API yet. It is on our backlog but I don’t have a timeline for it yet.

3

Oh, got it. Is it possible through the REST API, or not as well? It’d be a really nice feature to have.

4

Not at the moment, we need to make a few updates/changes before opening it up.

5

Understood! Thanks again, we’ll be thrilled when it’s possible to do it.

6

Adding my enthusiasm for this functionality.

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