Do I have to remove children in this case?

eezing

So do I always need to remove children from a sprite?

If sprites are indexed inside a parent, can we just set self = nil, and not bother removing them? Or is this information stored elsewhere and removing should be done?

Use

Parent = Core.class( Sprite )   function Parent:init( myLayer )   self.child1 = Sprite.new() self.child2 = Sprite.new()   self:addChild(child1) self:addChild(child2)   myLayer:addChild(self) end     function Parent:destroy()   self.child1:removeFromParent() self.child2:removeFromParent()   --[[ Are the two lines above required in this case ??? ]]--   self:removeFromParent() self = nil end

hgvyas123

self:removeFromParent() self = nil

above code will remove self as well as all the child of it

ar2rsawseen

To answer your question, then yes, adding some child to a stage hierarchy adds one more reference to it, so self = nil is not enough and you should explicitly remove it from parent.
The way @hgvyas123 demonstrates is the easiest way to accomplish what you want.
Even more, you don't have to nil out self, but rather the variable where you stored the instance if you had one, if not then only remove from parent

eezing

Great! Thanks for the clarification.