Setting exists to false in a group doesn't stop updating children

[isfuturebright]

Setting the exists flag to false on a group is not stopping it's children from being updated. When I set the visible flag everything in it stops rendering. I had to do a setAll("exists", false) to get it to work. Shouldn't it work for both exists and visible flags?

[rich]

Hmmm good point. Right now a Group doesn't have an update function at all - children are updated automatically by iterating through the display list. What I'll do for now is make a child check its Group exists value too, but what ought to be done longer term is check it on a Group level so if can skip checking all the Group children if the parent exists is false, but that will require using a different method to run through the list of game objects.

[isfuturebright]

I see. Thanks for the reply rich

[rich]

Ok this is now done in the dev branch version.

[isfuturebright]

Thanks rich.