How to get the position of the next 'slot' in a container?

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Is there a way to get the Vector2 position of the next available 'slot' in a container?

I'm moving a control node between 2 containers, but tweening its rect_position first.

I want to tween it into the second container, so I'd like to know that postion ahead of time.

Is that possible?

Alternatively if I could just make the node's rect_position transition whenever it moves (like CSS transitions), I wouldn't need to run the tween beforehand to create this illusion?

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Interesting videos, they may come in handy later.
In the end what I did was:
Use an empty Control node as a 'front runner' and put that in the destination first.
Then use the front runner's position as the the tween destination.

It's not ideal because I have to keep re-organising my tree, but it works.

Another thing I needed to do was yield(get_tree().create_timer(0.001), "timeout") before starting the tween, because the front runner's positon wasn't updated in time.

by (12 points)

I'm glad to know that the video was able to help you

by (56 points)
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