UIElementExtensions.CoordinatesTo(UIElement, UIElement) Method

Definition

Provides the distance in a Point to the passed in element from the element being called on. For instance, calling container.CoordinatesTo(child) will return the position of the child within the container. Helper for Windows.UI.Xaml.UIElement.TransformToVisual(Windows.UI.Xaml.UIElement).

public static Windows.Foundation.Point CoordinatesTo (this Windows.UI.Xaml.UIElement parent, Windows.UI.Xaml.UIElement target);
static member CoordinatesTo : Windows.UI.Xaml.UIElement * Windows.UI.Xaml.UIElement -> Windows.Foundation.Point
<Extension()>
Public Function CoordinatesTo (parent As UIElement, target As UIElement) As Point

Parameters

parent
Windows.UI.Xaml.UIElement

Starting parent element to provide coordinates from.

target
Windows.UI.Xaml.UIElement

Element to measure distance to.

Returns

Point containing difference in position of elements.

Applies to