When you 'kill' a sprite, what happens

[onedayitwillmake]

Trying to find out the best way to, remove a sprite.

I notice there is an add method, but I don't see an accompanying remove method for sprites.

 

What is the correct method to remove a sprite, currently i'm calling "kill" (my sprites are created using the GameObjectFactory), that doesn't seem to completely remove it, only stop drawing / updating it?

 

Is this correct? If so what is the right way to go about removing a sprite

[rich]

You know that's a very good point I have just added a Sprite.destroy function to wrap it up, but here is how you could do it in the meantime:

sprite.kill();if (sprite.group){   sprite.group.remove(sprite);}else if (sprite.parent){   sprite.parent.removeChild(sprite);}

[Hsaka]

Hello, when you kill a sprite, do the events that are attached to it such as the events.onInputDown get disposed automatically or do they need to be manually destroyed?

[Jorge]

Hello, when you kill a sprite, do the events that are attached to it such as the events.onInputDown get disposed automatically or do they need to be manually destroyed?

That's a really interesting question. 

[onedayitwillmake]

I can't seem to find the destroy function on the dev branch, is it no longer being added?

How do we handle removing the inputs, previously I was doing this

 if( this._view.input ) {  this._view.input.destroy(); } this._view.kill();

However this leads to a memory leak after the game is running for a prolonged period of time.

I'll try the work around above for now though

[rich]

I did put this back in but it's not yet pushed - keep a watch on the github repo, it'll be in the next push I do.