These are great articles! They are helping me out a lot. While browsing the links I also found grant's talk at flash forward austin. His presentation explaining resource management can be found here http://gskinner.com/talks/resource-management/ (free nicely animated slideshow application if anyone's interested ;)
Thanks James -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JOR Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 4:22 PM To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Flash 9 AS3 Resource Management Grant Skinner has some good blog postings on the subject... <http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2006/06/as3_resource_ma.html> <http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2006/07/as3_resource_ma_1.html> <http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2006/08/as3_resource_ma_2.html> <http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2006/09/garbage_collect.html> <http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2006/06/understanding_t.html> <http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2006/07/as3_weakly_refe.html> -- JOR James O'Reilly - Consultant Adobe Certified Flash Expert http://www.jamesor.com Design . Code . Train Kalani Bright wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Does anyone have some tips or tutorials on how to handle resources and > performance issues in flash. > > I have more of an application than a flash file and things start to > slow down after a while. I'm thinking the garbage collection > mechanism in flash isn't deleting the objects which aren't needed anymore. > I was able to improve performance somewhat by overriding > addEventListener to put the event listener into an array of objects > which I then reference values from. When a SuperMovieClip object is > removed from the stage an event listener for that event goes through > the array and removes each of the listeners. If it is added to the > stage again all the listeners are re-added from the array. > > Theres some other slow downs I can't account for. It would be nice if > there was a debugging tool or something so I could see what types of > objects are in memory at any time so I can see whats not getting > deleted and what keeps taking up resources. I am especially > interested in however strategies for dealing with the issues of > instantiation, deletion, events, for resource optimization. > > Thank you, thank you, (thank you) > > Kalani > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > 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 > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com 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 _______________________________________________ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com 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
