Remove child from group but not from stage?

[spinnerbox]

How can I remove child from a group but I don't want it deleted or killed from stage?

 

I keep all my screen objects in a group called screenObject for fading in. 

Then I have another group called cardGroup which keeps only the card sprites. I want to remove just two specific card sprites from cardGroup.

 

I do this

 

cardGroup.remove(card1, false);

cardGroup.remove(card2, false);

 

But it removes the object from stage as well.

 

What do I do wrong? Or what to do?

[CtlAltDel]

Add them to another group or the world.

 

game.add.existing(card1)

[spinnerbox]

Yeah. It works. Just wanted to know, are my cards still live after I change state?

 

Because game.add is game-wide Phaser.GameObjectFactory object. I mean it is same for all game states.

 

There will be dangling sprites in memory I suppose

[CtlAltDel]

I presume the stage is cleared between states. Never actually checked.

[spinnerbox]

Haha, it seems remove() function also removes the cards from screenObjects group too

 

Edited: I cannot add sprites in two groups at the same time? Cards are not added in screenObjects group.

[CtlAltDel]

Phaser uses a scenegraph (or rather PIXI does), and by definition a sprite can only be in one place in a scenegraph.

[Yashar]

how to remove last child from group in phaser 2 ??  or how to remove child by id from group ??