Determining the position of a Frame in a UIListLayout

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  1. What do you want to achieve? Keep it simple and clear!
    I want to be able to tween a selector to align with items affected by an UIListLayout

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    I want to make the selector move up and down using the mouse scroll.
    When the scroll moves up, the index would increase by 1 & vice versa.
    I tried to set the goal of the tween to one of the frames’s AbsolutePosition, but after i tested and some research, seems like AbsolutePosition is inaccurate, and i cant be relied on.

  2. What is the issue? Include screenshots / videos if possible!
    i cant figure out a method to determine the position of the ui object.

  3. What solutions have you tried so far? Did you look for solutions on the Creator Hub?
    I searched for posts regarding this, and they all dont seem to mention tweening.

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Can you explain what you meant by the AbsolutePosition working “unreliably”? A video of this “unreliable” behavior would help!

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After some research, i have found the reason why AbsolutePosition is inaccurate, seems like the property does not respect the GUI Inset. Fortunately i also found a method to calculate the Inset’s size:

I haven’t tested the method yet, but i appreciate you for offering me help. Thank you :grin:

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Sorry to bump this post, but how exactly did you fix the issue? Because I am having the same problem you had.

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AbsolutePosition works fine. It’s just not updating as fast as you may wish. Simply add a task.wait():

task.wait()
local pos = frame.AbsolutePosition
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Hey, i apologize for the late response. The post i embedded on my latest reply does work fine for me. You should try it out and perchance i can help with some minor issues.

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you can do something like this

local inset = GuiService:GetGuiInset() --// returns a vector2
local finalPos = Frame.AbsolutePosition + inset