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    Changing the parent of a sprite [solved]

    Tom2012Tom2012 Guru
    edited December 2012 in General questions
    Been trying to figure out how to change the parent of a sprite.

    After some playing around today I think I've got it.

    If you use addChild on a sprite that's already a child of another sprite, does it then cease being a child of the former sprite and become a child of the one you just specified?

    Hope that didn't sound like jibberish! :-)

    EDIT: Yes, this is in the reference.

    "Sprites can have only one parent. Therefore if you add a child object that already has a different sprite as a parent, the sprite is removed from the child list of the other sprite and then added to this sprite."

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    • MellsMells Guru
      Don't forget that you can save the index of your child before adding it to another parent.
      Sprite:getChildIndex(child)
      Returns the index of the specified child sprite.
      That will come in handy when you need to return your sprite/child to his original parent.
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