Draw not drawing within the bounds of the Control node

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Godot Version

4.2.2

Question

I have a scene where a texture rect contains a Control node and that control node contains a label node. My goal is to move the label node within the bound of its parent control node (i wanted to test another issue i still haven’t solved: Logic to keep control node within the borders of its parent control node).
Anyway, in order to assess if the label stayed within the bounds I used the draw function but the rectangle is not matching the position of the control node.
I drew in red where the control node is approximately situated.

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Here is the code for drawing the rectangle:

func _draw():
	draw_rect(Rect2(global_position.x, global_position.y, size.x, size.y), Color.AQUA)
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Within _draw use local coordinates and not global coordinates.

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By the way, what you want for your first issue (keep child nodes inside parent control area) can be easily done using Containers

Using Containers — Godot Engine (stable) documentation in English

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I assume using just position? I tried it has the same behaviour

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The top left corner of the Control node should have the coordinate Vector2(0, 0).

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Thank you!

func _draw():
	draw_rect(Rect2(0, 0, size.x, size.y), Color.AQUA)

did the trick.
I thought that nodes’ position was determined by their position in the viewport but apparently not. That might my other post as well