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I need to create few buttons in code and make them a neat grid. But I have no idea how I can get width or height of a button once I spawn them so it’ll be a neat grid. I’m using new GUI for the job and don’t know how to place them.

Here’s code I have so far:

void Start () {
		GameObject tempObject;
		for (int i =0;i<maxCategoryNum;i++){
			tempObject = Instantiate(CategoryButton) as GameObject;
			tempObject.GetComponent<RectTransform>().parent = this;
			tempObject.GetComponent<RectTransform>().position.x=0;
			tempObject.GetComponent<RectTransform>().position.y=i*tempObject.GetComponent<RectTransform>().; //here should be height of the object
		}
	}

Unfortunately I have no idea how to get height of the object to place them correctly.

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The only solution I’ve found so far that includes both anchors and offsets in all cases is

Vector3[] corners = new Vector3[4];
rectTransform.GetWorldCorners(corners);

And then manipulate their values to find what you need. For height it will be float height = corners[2].y-corners[0].y;

If someone knows better solution that works in any case, that would be great.

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Try it:

GetComponent<RectTransform>().rect.height;