Absolute position not working

[IceCreamPickels]

im trying to set the absolute position of the blue square to the red square but it doesn’t work

for screen gui, i clicked on ignore gui inset
and also for the 2 squares they both have an anchor point of (0.5, 0.5)

local gui = script.Parent
local Red = gui.Red
local Blue = gui.Blue

local AbsPos = Red.AbsolutePosition

Blue.Position = UDim2.new(0, AbsPos.X, 0, AbsPos.Y)

print(Red.AbsolutePosition)
print(Blue.AbsolutePosition)

the output

it gives constant results

here’s the file
abspos.rbxm (3.7 KB)

[IceCreamPickels]

my mistake was that i set the anchor point of the blue one to be 0.5, 0.5 and also the ignore gui inset also affects it

[IceCreamPickels]

ok here’s the solution if you want anchor point to be .5,.5 and also account for ignore gui inset
I added a marker to check if its correct

also setting ui position, it always rounds to the nearest whole number, so it doesn’t perfectly aligns

local GuiService = game:GetService("GuiService")

local gui = script.Parent
local marker = gui.Marker

local Red = gui.Red -- Replace "ParentObject" with the name of your parent object
local Blue = Red.Blue -- Replace "ChildObject" with the name of your child object

Blue.AnchorPoint = Vector2.new(0.5, 0.5)

local inset1, inset2 = GuiService:GetGuiInset()
local insetOffset = inset1 - inset2

local topLeftPosition = Blue.AbsolutePosition + insetOffset
local size = Blue.AbsoluteSize
local centerPosition = topLeftPosition + size / 2

print("Center position of child object: " .. tostring(centerPosition))

marker.Position = UDim2.new(0, centerPosition.X, 0, centerPosition.Y)

squaretest.rbxm (4.2 KB)