Physics on text

[rbarriuso]

Hi all,

I'm trying to enable physics on a text object but it seems it doesn't work. Here's the code:
 

//In the "create" function of my Phaser.Statethis.physics.startSystem(Phaser.Physics.ARCADE);// ...var text = this.add.text(this.world.centerX-100, this.world.centerY-200, "MyText", { font: 'bold 100pt Arial', fill: "#8888FF", align: 'center' });text.anchor.setTo(0.5);text.setShadow(5, 5, 'rgba(0,0,0,0.5)', 5);this.physics.enable(text, Phaser.Physics.ARCADE);text.body.bounce.y = 1;text.body.gravity.y = 2000;text.body.collideWorldBounds = true;

I get an error because "text.body" is not defined (line 8 in the code above).
I supposed "Phaser.Text" supported physics since it inherits from "Sprite".

Is this an expected limitation?

Thanks in advance,
  Rafa.
 

[lewster32]

Only Sprites can have physics enabled, but you can create an empty sprite and attach the text object to it with addChild:

var text = this.add.text(0, 0, "MyText", { font: 'bold 100pt Arial', fill: "#8888FF", align: 'center' });text.anchor.setTo(0.5);text.setShadow(5, 5, 'rgba(0,0,0,0.5)', 5);var textSprite = this.add.sprite(this.world.centerX-100, this.world.centerY-200, null);textSprite.addChild(text);this.physics.enable(textSprite, Phaser.Physics.ARCADE);textSprite.body.bounce.y = 1;textSprite.body.gravity.y = 2000;textSprite.body.collideWorldBounds = true;

[rbarriuso]

Thank you! It works perfectly.