API Panel.Position.MoveTo

<sidebar>API Contents</sidebar> Moves the object to the given coordinates relative to its parent

Parameters

HANDLE Handle

The position or component to update

The default value for this parameter is: this

FLOAT X

Local coordinate X to update with

FLOAT Y

Local coordinate Y to update with

FLOAT Z

Local coordinate Z to update with

Return value

This call does not return a value

Detailed description

This moves a position to a set of absolute coordinates in its parents coordinate space. That is, the center of the parent object is considered to be (0, 0, 0).

This call is a compliment to MoveBy.

Examples

Calling in a calculation

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  ::Panel.Position.MoveTo(handle, x, y, z)

Flowcode example file

Download SIMAPI_Panel_Position_MoveTo and open it in Flowcode v6. In this example, there are three cubiods that represent Axis X,Y,Z. Note they are coloured exactly as the panel axis indicator which represents your viewing position. There is a sphere also on the panel.

The MoveTo(h,x,y,z) function moves the object specified to a new set of coordinates. In the example file, the program moves the sphere from it's original location of x10,y10,z0 to x100,y75,z0, waits a second and then moves the sphere back to it's original coordinates.

The screenshots below show the effect and also highlight the code used by the example.