Setting position on live shape layer

[MikeL]

Hi all,

I'm new to Photoshop scripting and are still trying to wrap my head around some stuff.
I've created an extension for illustrator which was pretty straight forward and are now working on bringing it over to Photoshop.

I'm struggling with what was fairly simple to do in illustrator that turns out to be somewhat over complicated to do in Photoshop (probably just me that needs to learn it better).

For now I'm struggling with putting an absolute position on a live shape within a canvas/document. Is there a simple way to do this? I've started using script listener to figure out some stuff but the code that it generates isn't the most reader friendly. I could probably do the same with setting the position of shape layer but I really want to understand the code I use.

So lets say for example I have my canvas size at 500 x 500 pixels... and my shape is 10 x 10 pixels big. How would I put that shape at lets say 30x 100y position?

I might add that this was easy to do with an artLayer just by doing

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myArtLayer.position = [x, y];

This on a selected live shape layer seems to work differently? any one knows how this works that could point me in to the right direction would be highly appreciated.

Thanks,
Mike

[Kukurykus]

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b = (lyr = (aD = activeDocument).activeLayer).bounds, lyr.translate(-b[0] + 10 , -b[1] + 10)

[MikeL]

Thanks Kukurykus! Appreciate the reply!