Getting position of GUIs in a scrollingframe canvas

[Chiseled_Cheese]

Hello. I am trying to make a “quick-search” system.
In this color picker, players can select a color by pressing one of the many colored buttons. If they scroll away, I want them to be able to click
this:

and have the scrolling frame automatically scroll to the selected buttons position.
Here is the code I currently have. (Everything works in the code except getting the position of the identified button.)

function load()
	local list = script.Parent.Parent.Parent.colors
	local selection = script.Parent.Parent.Text
	local s = list:FindFirstChild(selection)
	
	print(selection,s.Name,s.Position.X.Offset)
	
	if s then
		local xpos = s.Position.X.Offset
		list.CanvasPosition = Vector2.new(xpos,0)
	end
end

script.Parent.MouseButton1Up:Connect(load)

I have already found the problem. I am using UIListLayout, which completely disables the position property of the GUI object inside of the scrolling frame.

Now, I need to figure out another solution that will let me get the position of the GUI inside of the scrollingframes canvas.

[sau2000]

Try using GUI.AbsolutePosition

[Chiseled_Cheese]

That gets the gui position according to the players screen, not the scrolling frame.

[sau2000]

Are you using offset to position your UI?

[sau2000]

Label each frame 0 to the # of frames. 0 being the first frame and # frames being the frame farthest away. Do spaceBetweenEachFrame * position and position being what you labelled it. Add this number to the scrolling frames position

[Chiseled_Cheese]

I mentioned in my post that I am using a UIListLayout to store all of the buttons. That completely removes the position property from being used.

[giancarlofx12 (giancarlo)]

why don’t you make them not visible with a for when searching with based on the color button that has less characters?

[Kitsomia (Mia)]

I just realized this is really late (saw it because it was bumped) but honestly for those who search for this:

local scroller : ScrollingFrame
local selectedButton : GUIButton

local scroller_absolute_position = scroller.AbsolutePosition
local current_canvas_position = scroller.CanvasPosition
local button_absolute_position = selectedButton.AbsolutePosition

local difference = button_absolute_position - scroller_absolute_position
scroller.CanvasPosition += difference
-- // You can tween this of course.

This also depends on your list method… but it should show up somewhere within the canvas.

[Chiseled_Cheese]

thank you so much for your reply, but i forgot to say that i didn’t need a solution anymore, it has been a while lol

i will mark your answer as a solution for anybody else who comes by.