Get position of component within group

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I’m trying to use a script to get the positions of components within a group, but if I run:

window.getRootContainer().getComponent("Group 1").getComponent("MyComponent").getLocation()

It tells me that its at (0,0), regardless of where the component is. Running the same code on a component that isn’t in a group:

window.getRootContainer().getComponent("MyOtherComponent").getLocation()

yields the correct set of coordinates. Is there a different way to go about getting coordinates of grouped components, or am I just missing something in the script I currently have?

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Add the location of the group. :slight_smile:

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I see what you’re saying as far as getting the absolute position in the end, but currently I can’t get a relative position of my grouped component. Every call to getLocation() for components in the group returns (0,0), no matter where they are.

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So far, I’m not able to replicate this.

window = system.gui.getParentWindow(event)
group = window.getRootContainer().getComponent("Group")

print  group.name, ':', group.getLocation()

for component in group.components:
  print component.name,':', component.getLocation()

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Ok, I just tried the same code that you used with some new buttons as well as one of the components that I want the location of, here are the results (MyComopnent is the green arc):

Could it be that there is something about these components that prevent getting the location? This is part of a project that I’ve inherited so I don’t know if anything special was done when these were created

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Hi kev, did you try the system.gui.transform()?

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For what it is worth,
if you try iterating through .getComponents() on the root container it will return “PathBasedVisionShape(MyComponent)”

If you use .getBoundingRect() on the component it returns .x,.y,.w & .h
See this post on PathBasedVisionShape mouse click
PathBasedVisionShape