Pixi.js: [Question] Standardizing anchor property for all Display Objects

[st3v0]

I'm not sure if this has been covered in the past, I was just looking over the API and how our team consumes it. I was wondering if any thought has been given to standardizing the anchor property across all display objects. Moving it from Sprite to DisplayObject.

It seems to be a pretty handy API that could be used for all display objects.

[ivanpopelyshev]

That requires fixed width/height for all objects or calculated layout.

width/height are not first-class citizens in pixi, they are calculated

for sprite and maybe a few other objects width and height match texture size multiplied by scale

No width/height => no anchor.

Yes, maybe you can add overrides for width/height differently that they exist, in that case anchor makes sense. Our implementation is based on Adobe Flash experience.

If you have a team and serious project - I recommend you try write your own stage tree, v5 is almost at the point where its actually possible to do for small teams :)

[ivanpopelyshev]

Extra clarification: there are many things I want to use in pixi trees but if we put them there it will become bloated. I want better handling of transforms, color transforms, queue for changes in stage, added_to_stage , removed_from_stage events and many other things, that's why I'm pushing for changes that lead to possibility of making custom tree nodes.

[bigtimebuddy]

Thanks for the suggestion. We’ve gotten requests like this before and unfortunately we’ve had to say “no” for the reasons Ivan articulated. I’m going to close this.