From 5f54a68491703cf53378b3a78d5880fba561073f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Geymayer <tomgey@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 17:33:12 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Canvas: add helper to get parent of canvas.Element

---
 Nasal/canvas/api.nas | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Nasal/canvas/api.nas b/Nasal/canvas/api.nas
index a08514635..4eb3d110d 100644
--- a/Nasal/canvas/api.nas
+++ b/Nasal/canvas/api.nas
@@ -142,6 +142,20 @@ var Element = {
       _node: props.wrapNode(ghost._node_ghost)
     };
   },
+  # Get parent group/element
+  getParent: func()
+  {
+    var parent_ghost = me._getParent();
+    if( parent_ghost == nil )
+      return nil;
+
+    var type = props.wrapNode(parent_ghost._node_ghost).getName();
+    var factory = me._getFactory(type);
+    if( factory == nil )
+      return parent_ghost;
+
+    return factory(parent_ghost);
+  },
   # Check if elements represent same instance
   #
   # @param el Other Element or element ghost