(Unity + 2D) Change UI Button position issue

Question

The last few days I've been stuck with a headache of a problem in Unity.

Okay, I won't go into details with my game, but I've made a super-simple example which represents my issue.

I have a 2D scene these components:

When the scene loads, and I tap the button this script executes:

Vector3 pos = transform.position;
pos.x -= 10;
transform.position = pos;

I have also tried this code:

transform.position = Camera.main.WorldToScreenPoint(new Vector3(0, 0, 0));

The problem is, that when I click the button, the x-pos of the object sets to -1536 which is not as expected. Picture shows the scene after the button has been clicked. Notice the Rect Transform values:

So I did a little Googling and found out about ScreenToWorldPoint, WorldToScreenPoint etc but no of these conversions solves my problem.

I'm pretty sure I'm missing someting here, which probably is right in front of my, but I simply can't figure out what.

I hope someone can point me in the right direction.

Best regards.

Answer 1

Try using transform.localposition = new Vector3(0,0,0); as your button is a child of multiple game objects. You could also try using transform.TransformPoint, which should just convert localpos to worldpos.