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I'm using
```Modifier
    .onGloballyPositioned {
        position.value = it.positionInParent()
    }```
which is incredibly useful but I would need the value as DpOffset rather than Offset. Is that conversion at all possible?

it is, but reaching for it is generally a sign that there's a better way to do something

and the question involving `onGloballyPositioned` suggests that this code might be trying to do something across multiple frames that might be better expressed using `Layout`

ah ok lol, well I have the width of my parent Box in dp and my offset in Floats, so I was trying to find a solution.

to be clear, I am moving a tile (Box) from one end of a board (parent Box) to the other, and I need to know when I reach that other end.

So I should look at `Layout` rather than `onGloballyPositioned`?

Probably; `Layout` can measure and position multiple sibling elements together with full knowledge of the connection between them. Adjusting child positioning with a combo of offsets/onGloballyPositioned means the code is iterating positions and trying to converge on a layout solution