Eric I moved the thumbs into an external cast and things are running far
faster and with less memory loss (haven't tested thoroughly, but its
definitely better). Now I have to figure out why 6000 2k thumbs make a
215 meg external cast.... man o man Director is a ... sometimes =)
I still haven't tried putting this in Valentina because I expect the
memory leak problem to continue as Valentina makes cast members at
runtime (this is how it works right?). Also access should be a bit
slower than having it all in an external cast right?
-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Curtis [mailto:ecurtis AT rgbdesignstudio .DOT com]
Sent: May 29, 2002 9:12 AM
To: Subscribers of Valentina
Subject: Re: V4MD Picture type, less stressful on ram when loading pics
atruntime?
> In my experience, I have always decided to store the pictures, even
> large ones in Valentina, because the it way easier to handle and
there's
> no way for people to mess with the picts from outside the application.
Just a note here because I think I found a bug in Director relating to
manipulating pictures from outside of director. Here is a snippet of my
bug
report to Macromedia. I would love to here feedback from others here if
they
can confirm/refute this...
Bug Description:
Using Member.filename produces memory leak
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Summary:
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Place a bitmap on the screen that will be replaced by external files
(5
bitmaps in my case) by using the member(myMember).filename = (path &name
of
external file) command
2. Set up a loop so that the bitmap is replaced the external files of
the
same size one at a time. Loop through the logos many times.
3. I created a MIAW that showed the Initial freebytes and the current
freebytes to monitor memory usage. (only the current freebytes updated)
4. Set the project running.
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Expected Results:
Logos would cycle on the screen and no memory would be used.
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Actual Results:
Logos cycle but the 20-40 bytes are lost with each changing bitmap.
After a
short amount of time my project had eaten up 5 mb too many. My work
around
has been to import the logos to an external cast at run time and
manipulate
them from there. When I do this the above steps produce no memory loss
while
the logos loop. If I had to guess, I think that when director reads the
name
of the external file the memory is lost from the previous reading. That
would account for the variation in memory loss.
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Platform: Both Windows and Mac
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Sincerely,
Eric Curtis
www.rgbdesignstudio.com
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