Animated GUI with parenting

Unity Engine
1

Hey there, I am looking to make a fairly complex animated GUI (2d) and I am wondering if someone has a technique for parenting with GUI.

eg. move object A and child object B moves under it. I know GUI elements aren’t objects at all, but is there some common workaround besides making game objects as a proxy GUI?

2

Use GUI groups. Unity - Scripting API: GUI.BeginGroup

Example:

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class example : MonoBehaviour {

public Rect movingRect;

void Start() {
movingRect = new Rect(new Rect(Screen.width / 2 - 400, Screen.height / 2 - 300, 800, 600));
}

void OnGUI() {
GUI.Label(movingRect, "I'm Child Object A");
GUI.BeginGroup(movingRect); 
GUI.Box(new Rect(0, 0, 800, 600), "This box is child object B and in you modify the movingRect var both with A will update position");
GUI.EndGroup();
}
}