Dynamic Positioning relative to new objects.

HI,

I have been searching about this issue on different forums, but couldn't find an exact answer, not even close to hint to do some thing as follows:

I want to create a scrollable list using new unity UI, what I want to do is to get some data (the menu items), menu items consists of two elements a background image and a text (displayed on that background). The text can vary in length.

So I want to create these menu items dynamically, i.e. during runtime. Hierarchy will be as follows

-Panel
----Panel
------Background Image
------Text
----Panel
------Background Image
------Text
----Panel
------Background Image
------Text

for this I have to set the height of background image and panel during runtime. I will use the first panel (the grand parent panel) to achieve scrolling.

While playing with this, I tried to access width and height of panel using script, but wasn't able to do so. Is there another way to achieve this? Or if I am going right, how can I set my menu items dynamically (i.e. access width and height through script) to increase height of the panel and images dynamically?

 

you should probably post this in the 4.6 developer preview forum: http://forum.unity3d.com/forums/developer-preview-4-6-beta.60/ you'd have a better chance of getting an answer.

 

Ok, thanks I am putting it there too.