how to find out the absolute position of the GUI element?

Unity Engine
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i am wondering how to get the x and y screen coordinates of the element that i am using
in GUI. the thing is that i used few nested GUI groups and i dont know how to get absolute
screen x and y position. is it possible?

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If you are using the GUI class functions then you can get the absolute screen position of a nested element by adding its XY position to that of its parent element (and so on). You can get the position of a GUILayout element using the GUILayoutUtility.GetLastRect function although it may be tricky to use with nested elements, depending on what you are doing.

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is there an automatic way of calculating that?
too bad there is no other easier way

4

Transform.TransformPoint : Will translate a point in localSpace to worldSpace.

Note that, if the parent object of a GUI-type object moves, it moves it’s position on the screen for some odd reason. In my opinion, most GUI objects are pretty awkwardly designed.