From 493d95c3f64f19896debff4a8e150c9fa67e3eb2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Michael=20K=C3=B6sel?= <TheCodez@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2015 00:08:38 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add missing getChildByTag<>() api

---
 cocos/2d/CCNode.h | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/cocos/2d/CCNode.h b/cocos/2d/CCNode.h
index 93cb2e2a7d..4a521f81c7 100644
--- a/cocos/2d/CCNode.h
+++ b/cocos/2d/CCNode.h
@@ -769,6 +769,17 @@ public:
      * Please use `getChildByName()` instead.
      */
      virtual Node * getChildByTag(int tag) const;
+    
+     /**
+     * Gets a child from the container with its tag that can be cast to Type T.
+     *
+     * @param tag   An identifier to find the child node.
+     *
+     * @return a Node with the given tag that can be cast to Type T.
+    */
+    template <typename T>
+    inline T getChildByTag(int tag) const { return static_cast<T>(getChildByTag(tag)); }
+    
     /**
      * Gets a child from the container with its name.
      *