Msg.post sprite x,y coordiantes

[tmscaf]

Hello,

I did some digging and I’m not seeing it, but I’m sure it’s here…somewhere…

I’m semi-new to defold and what I’m trying to accomplish is something probably pretty simple to a lot of you. I have a working model of a sprite that I can control on screen with WASD movement. What I would like to do is simply display the sprites x,y coordinates via a msg.post. Nothing more. Can someone perhaps direct me to a post that I probably somehow overlooked on how to achieve this? As always, I greatly appreciate anyones help.

Thanks you

[Pkeod]

You cannot modify or get the sprite’s x,y position at runtime. You can parent the sprite to a GO and get/set that GO’s x,y position.

[Mathias_Westerdahl]

What I would like to do is simply display the sprites x,y coordinates via a msg.post

• You can either have a label somewhere, and use label.set_text()
• You can have a gui with a label in it, and send a message to the gui, and then use gui.set_text()
• You can use the debug message “draw_text”