Change Button Height/Width In code

Hello! I'm trying to set a button's height and width in code so it scales in proportion to the screen size. But, I can't find the code to control it.
with a 'Button' variable named 'myButton'
The x and y position work : myButton.transform.position = new Vector3 (x,y,z);
But I can't find myButton.width, or myButton.height. Nothing seems to access those variables

 

Why are you doing this?

Are you running into some strange edge case where Unity's built in layout tools aren't working properly?

Have you read through this and gotten a basic understanding of how Anchors and RectTransforms work? https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ugui@1.0/manual/UIBasicLayout.html

Have you played with the various CanvasScaler settings?

 

Hi Praetor-!
I've have actually been reading a lot and going through the documentation. The Built in Canvas stuff has been incredibly useful.

I just want the insurance of knowing how to manually set a button on the screen to a ratio'd width and height in the case the canvas auto-size stuff puts buttons to close together. I'd like to make sure a few buttons never overlap on all screen ratios and resolutions.

 

Get the RectTransform and then set the .localScale property. I avoid setting width and height because scale will also scale any child objects.

yourRectTransform.localScale = new Vector3(buttonScaleX, buttonScaleY, 1); // Z value is irrelevant with UI

You *can* set width and height with .sizeDelta though.

 

Like @seejayjames said, width is sizeDelta.x and height is sizeDelta.y (assuming your object isn't rotated), if you want to do what you said manually you'll need to have 2 variables for how much of the screen resolution it takes and 2 variables for where it is along the screen resolution.

No reason to actually do that though - just use the canvas scaling!

 

Thank you!!! I believe my question has been answered