Pixi.Text() only as Texture-provider?

[Jörg Plewe]

Hi all!

I have to deal with lots of non-changing text objects. My idea is to use Pixi.Text as a provider for a texture and create a Pixi.Sprite from it. Like so:

const txt = new Text(text, style);

txt.updateText(false);

container.addChild(new Sprite(txt.texture));

This actually works but leaves me with dangling Pixi.Text objects, each allocating a canvas and such, eating up memory.

So I added a destroy():

const txt = new Text(text, style);

txt.updateText(false);

container.addChild(new Sprite(txt.texture));

txt.destroy({texture: false});

which gives me a 

WebGL: INVALID_VALUE: texImage2D: no canvas

Next, I tried to clone the texture before destroying the Pixi.Text:

const txt = new Text(text, style);

txt.updateText(false);

const texture = txt.texture.clone();

container.addChild(new Sprite(txt.texture));

txt.destroy();

which gives me just empty images.

So ... why doesn't the texture cloning work? Are there better ways to deal with that?