Destroying RectTransform

Hey, so i'm trying to destroy an object made out of 4 components, RectTransform, CanvasRenderer, Image, CustomScript.

when i try to destroy it i get the message "Can't remove RectTransform because Image (Script) depends on it"

goggled all over the place to no avail.

this is the ONLY destroy call in the project.

Code (CSharp):

1.     public void Clear(){
2.         foreach (Transform t in statsParent.transform) {
3.             Destroy (t.gameObject);
4.         }
5.     }

 

So it stopped doing that after resetting unity, must be one of these compilation hiccups or something.

2017.4.3 BTW

 

Have you accidentally used

Destroy(t)

instead of

Destroy(t.gameObject)

?

 

Destroying a Transform or RectTransform is a common pitfall, you should never ever do that.
To completely destroy an object, always make sure to destroy the

.gameObject

.

You can destroy other components however. For example you could do Destroy(g.GetComponent<Renderer>())
which will just remove the Mesh or Sprite renderer (or whatever renderer there is) component on the gameobject, and leave the gameobject itself and all the other components it has intact.


Your code looks right, but the message you get tells us that there's some other code somewhere that does it wrong.

Maybe you have some code somewhere that does something like this:
Destroy( transform.GetChild(n) )

which will cause the problem as well, since GetChild returns a Transform and not the GameObject!

The GameObject is the "actual" object, everything else is just a component on the GameObject (including Transforms, Renderers, ...)