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NMunro
NMunro

Reputation: 1290

Cocos2d - Overriding addChild for Child

I have a class that inherits from CCNode. I want to override the adding of this class to a parent.

So if ClassA inherits CCNode, I add it like this [self addChild:ClassA];. ClassA contains 3 sprites and I want all 3 of those added when I add ClassA. Is there a way of doing this?

I looked into addChild and saw that it calls setParent on the child, so in ClassA I override setParent to do this:

- (void) setParent:(CCNode *)parent {
    [super setParent:parent];
    [parent addChild:_sprite1 z:kZClassA];
    [parent addChild:_sprite2 z:kZClassA];
    [parent addChild:_sprite3 z:kZClassA];
}

Seems kinda hacky to me? Is there a better way of doing this?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 309

Answers (1)

giorashc
giorashc

Reputation: 13713

There is no need to override addChild for this task. All you have to do is add the sprites when you create them in ClassA. And when you will add ClassA as a child of a node then ClassA children will be automatically added as well. (Since they are the children of ClassA).

Assuming you create your sprites in the init method of ClassA:

- (id) init {
    if (self = [super init]) {
         // Create the sprites and then :
         [self addChild:sprite1]; // Add the sprite as a child of ClassA
         [self addChild:sprite2];
         [self addChild:sprite3];
    }

    return self;
}

then add classA to the desired node (Probably a CCLayer instance) :

[self addChild:classAInstance]; // Where self is an instance of your desired CCNode

Upvotes: 1

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