Re: [flexcoders] SWF's not unloading

2006-07-11 Thread Hilary Bridel
Not a problem Angus, I seem to remember seeing this as an issue somewhere. Streams are not killed when the application is unloaded. Other than your possible solution, I am not aware of a workaround at this time. Hilary -- On 7/10/06, Angus Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gotcha. Thanks

Re: [flexcoders] SWF's not unloading

2006-07-07 Thread Angus Johnson
Thank you both for the reply. Hilary, your example has been very helpful. Correct me if I'm wrong (very likely) but even though you unload the swfContent wouldn't it still be in memory? From my very brief read up of garbage collection wouldn't it still exist unless you removed myLoader

Re: [flexcoders] SWF's not unloading

2006-07-07 Thread Hilary Bridel
Hi Angus, swfContent is a reference to the actual SWF file which isthe child of Loader. swfContent.loaderInfo.loader.unload() will remove the SWF file. You are right to say that removeChild(myLoader) would completely remove the Loader, but in this case I need it to load the SWF again. Hilary

[flexcoders] SWF's not unloading

2006-07-06 Thread Angus Johnson
Hi,I have a canvas called parentView into which I add SWF child objects via...parentView.addChild(mySWF);mySWF.load();No problems loading. When I want to change the contents of parentView and swap out the loaded SWF I run... parentView.removeAllChildren();// get new

Re: [flexcoders] SWF's not unloading

2006-07-06 Thread Hilary Bridel
Hi Angus I have an example of loading a swf in Flex 2 with code on my site. http://www.bridel.org/ Let me know if it helps... Hilary -- On 7/6/06, Angus Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,I have a canvas called parentView into which I add SWF child objects

Re: [flexcoders] SWF's not unloading

2006-07-06 Thread Jeremy Lu
Resource management and garbage collection is a lot different then it used to be, here's a great post on it (from Grant Skinner's blog): http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2006/07/as3_resource_ma_1.html The point is, you should stop all playing sound, remove all listeners from