How to know the position of a component from the sctript editor in vision

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I’m going to show you how you can dig down into the functions available on a component

@pturmel wrote a script function that does this pretty conveniently. I don't use it much, so I don't know if it works with modern Ignition (8+), but it might be worth checking out.

Finding all available methods from a component

The introspection script has evolved over time, particularly to return a string result instead of just printing. I found that useful for introspection in gateway scope using runScript() in an expression tag. Or to set the .text property of a scrollable text edit field for convenience. This is what it looks like today: # Introspection for Jython/Java # # Copyright 2008-2016 Automation Professionals, LLC <sales@automation-pros.com> # # Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or…