Script inheritance from Image preventing public variables from showing in Inspector

I haven't been able to find an answer via searching, so does anyone know if there's a way to assign public variables from a script if said script is also an Image? Or perhaps just an easier way to mess with rectTransform besides inheriting from Image? I have two objects I want to give to the script to find their position difference but I can't see anything besides basic image functionality in the inspector.

Code and inspector views are below:

 

I think you'll have to write a custom editor.

 

In the more general case, yes, you'll have to write a custom editor.

However, why are you making this inherit from Image? Make it a normal MonoBheaviour; it doesn't seem to need anything that Image provides.

 

I found another way, using static variables in a class, but the reason I'm inheriting is because I can't seem to use rectTransform without inheriting, do you know what I need to include/inherit to be able to use that?

 

You can either GetComponent<RectTransform>(), or you can typecast the transform property like this: RectTransform rectTransform = (RectTransform)transform;

 

Very useful to know, many thanks! I thought about typecasting it but I didn't think that work. I guess since I was only using the stuff RectTransform inherits from Transform it would've worked perfectly fine. GetComponent didn't even occur to me for some reason, still a lot to learn. Glad I'll be able to deal with this issue in the future though.