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Good evening everyone. I've got an incredibly weird issue at the moment with some frames.

I am using FrameName.GetXPosition() and it's returning 125. However, if I put a button at the same positon of the frame, it comes back as position 10?

In the designer the frames left position is 10, as it the temporary button I created.

I've tried running the publication in window and fullscreen to see if it was a screen resolution problem, but the x position of the frame still stays at 125 instead of10?

To reproduce this on my machine, all I need to do is the following:

Create a new publication with a new page.
Add a frame to the page
On load of the page, use Debug.trace(FrameName.GetXPosition()).

I have also used GetPosition().x as well, and that also returns the same result.

Look forward to hearing back from you.

Regards,
Dan.


EDIT: By the way, my frame is on a master page, and the temporary button I created is sitting directly on the page, just like the frame is.

That's puzzling.

The getposition works with x,y centers of course. You can verify Object position while in the Editor. Look at the status bar at bottom... it will show something like (mid 55, 140) for the center of object hovered-over.
If you want other 'measures', look at GetObjectDimensions() or other commands.


I did a quick test of getpos_Frame = Frame_5.GetPosition().x ...works fine, correct.

You can post your sample pub ( .imp ) so we see what you're seeing.

As Lar says - it gets the centre of the object.

Either do some maths with getwidth or use GetObjectDimensions().left.

Mack

Thanks guys, I was very happy to get the answer as soon as I woke up (I forgot it was the middle position! Silly me)!

I'm now using GetObjectDimensions().left for simplicity.