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Is there a way to reference another component in a custom property, and use it in property paths? e.g. Width = customProperty.Value.Width?

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Posted on by BrettM

This would make tying various properties to one control/component in a scene super easy and make components that follow other components really fast to use.

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Hi @BrettM ,

Do you mean you would like to keep a component's size got synced when another component got modified?
For example, I have a combo box and a text input control, I want the text input's width get changed once if I change the combo box's width. Set the text input's width to:

ComboBox1.Width

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Yes, but not simply the size. And I don't want to have to tie the width, height, x, y, abc, def manually. I want to reference it BEFOREhand using a custom property, though I haven't seen any examples of it done yet.

Let's say I make a component, and I set
width = customProperty.width
height = customProperty.height
isTrue = customProperty.isTrue

Then when I drop it into a screen, I can set customProperty = ComboBox1, and have everything tied up already.

Does that make sense?
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And assuming that it is not possible to reference an object as a data type in a property, pulling the value in some way that it can be used in a property.

e.g. width = customProperty.Value.Width