Ian, It's true what they say about great minds... just before I read your reply I was working on something unrelated and noticed I had to use unloadMovie() instead of removeMovieClip() and a little light came on... (very dim, but it's there) - I'll have a look and see if it makes a difference.
I understand what you're saying about the levels... the game itself is bingo - the minigames are games-within-a-game... basically the game is so stultifying (cause flash dabs the cards for you) that there's slot machines in there to play while you find out how much money you've lost (sorry, won)... the lobby allows you to select which club you want to play in. Thanks again T -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian Thomas Sent: 09 November 2006 13:30 To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Garbage Collection in FP8 The first time that you return to a game..? It sounds very much like you're not destroying the movieclips for each mini-game, and that you're creating them under unique names/ids or on unique depths; and when you return to the same game, it's recreated over the old copy of itself, replacing the movieclip that was created last time around. So, going in to mini game A followed by mini game B we end up with: main + --- gameA (should have been removed but wasn't) + --- gameB Then back to game A main +--- gameA (replaced by the new copy) +--- gameB (should have been removed but wasn't) Does that make any sense? Pure speculation on my part, but seems to match the symptoms. Are you really, truly, 100% sure about removeMovieClip() being called? :-D You could try doing a for...in... on the parent movie to list its children - to see if anything's hanging around. Do you call unloadMovie()? Might be worth it to see if it makes a difference (I can't remember if either of our frameworks has it, offhand - can check if need be). Basically we've had two frameworks that sound like they're set up in exactly the way you describe; and they've worked from flash player 7 thru 9 happily with none of these symptoms. Some of the 'modules' pretty intensive stuff. Ian On 11/9/06, Trevor Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ian, > > We do load different swfs - the game itself consists of several 'modules' > (the game itself, a navigation bar, mini-games that run within the main game > etc.etc.) when you move to the lobby all the current objects are destroyed > and the clips removed and the lobby is created from scratch - then that's > destroyed when the player moves to a new game... > > The weird thing is that however many times you go through this > game-lobby-game process the 'grinding' that occurs seems to happen only on > the first time you return to a game... after that it stays the same > (incredibly high, but the same) - what you'd expect if it was GC or > something would be that the process would get multiplied... > > There's a lot of XML getting passed around when a new game starts so we're > looking at that, too. > > If there's ever a solution found and it turns out to be GC or something I'll > let you know what it was, cause it could be useful to others... the > application is pretty big and I'm not sure if we're just hitting the limit > of how much the player can actually cope with (I'll have to actually start > learning AS3 by the looks of things!) > > Thanks for your help Ian, If anything else occurs to you about this do let > me know... > > T _______________________________________________ [email protected] To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com _______________________________________________ [email protected] To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
