[Fixed] Fetching anchoredPosition of UI component

This script is attached to every UI object I need it to.

Code (CSharp):

1.  
2.   public Vector2 tilePosition;
3.  
4.   // Start is called before the first frame update
5.     void Start()
6.     {
7.         // CALCULATE TILE POSITION
8.         CalculateTilePos();
9.     }
10.  
11.     private void CalculateTilePos()
12.     {
13.         RectTransform rt = gameObject.GetComponent<RectTransform>();
14.  
15.         float x = (rt.anchoredPosition.x);
16.         float y = (rt.anchoredPosition.y);
17.  
18.         // ASSIGN NEW POSITION
19.         tilePosition = new Vector2(x, y);
20.     }

Yet the values of tilePosition are always 0,0. Nothing in any other script modifies tilePosition, so I am confused to what I have done wrong. Here is a screenshot of the gameObject with the script attached.


The values I am trying to assign to tilePosition are Pos X and Pos Y of Rect Transform.

 

I FOUND THE PROBLEM!

The problem was that the CalculateTilePos method was being called in Start. I suppose that since each UI object that the Tile script was attached to was being controlled by a grid layout group in a parent object, calling my method would read the values of each individual tile position BEFORE the grid layout group assigned the positions of each object.

tl;dr: I called my method in the start method. Don't do that if the position is being affected by a grid layout group component