Adding Force

Unity Engine
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I have a UI Button object in a 2D project. I’ve added a Rigidbody2D to it. It has a mass of 1, 0 for linear and angular drag, and zero for gravity scale. (see pic).

In code, in an OnClick event handler, I attempted to add a force to move the object.

btnItem =GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag(“btnItem”);
rb = btnItem.GetComponent();
rb.AddForce(btnItem.transform.right *1000);

but the object does not move at all. If I give the rigid body a gravity scale of 1, it drops (as you might expect).

How should force be applied to move it? Please give a code example.

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Hmm… Not sure how to delete my question, so I will mention it here.

I created a new scene, using just the basic button, and using essentially the same force, and it DID work. So that leaves me with what’s wrong with my first scene. And the work around for that is, who cares, use the new scene…
rb.AddForce(newVector2(0, 1) *1000);