Sprite:getNumChildren

Available since: Gideros 2011.6
Class: Sprite

Description

Returns the number of children of this sprite. <syntaxhighlight lang="lua"> (number) = Sprite:getNumChildren() </source>

Return values

Returns (number) the number of children of this sprite

Examples

<syntaxhighlight lang="lua"> local container1 = Sprite.new() local container2 = Sprite.new()

local sprite1 = Sprite.new(); local sprite2 = Sprite.new();

container2:addChild(container1) container1:addChild(sprite1) container1:addChild(sprite2)

print(container1:getNumChildren()) --> 2 print(container2:getNumChildren()) --> 1 print(sprite1:getNumChildren()) --> 0 print(sprite2:getNumChildren()) --> 0 </source>

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