DateField memory leak

[Paul Frantz]

Hi all,

I've been trying to track down a memory leak in our app and I believe I've
tracked it down to the DateField widget.
It appears that if I select a date programmatically and then delete the
component memory usage starts to creep up and
is seemingly never garbage collected. The sample code below when run on my
machine uses up a delta of ~50M
between when the app is first loaded and after 100 iterations of this
sequence. Additionally after 100 iterations the
Internet Explorer process is chewing up ~20% of my CPU while the app is
supposedly idling.

Has anyone else run into this issue and perhaps found a workaround? I gotta
feeling Matt is going to tell me to 
go wish :)

Cheers,
Paul.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.macromedia.com/2003/mxml"; 
load="myLoad()"
>

<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
var counter:Number;
var intervalId1:Number;
var intervalId2:Number;
var date:Date;


function destroy():Void {
clearInterval(intervalId2);


viewStack.destroyChildAt(0);
counter = counter + 1;
if (counter == 100) {
clearInterval(intervalId1);
}
}


function create():Void {
trace("date = " + date);
var dateField =
viewStack.createChild(mx.controls.DateField, undefined);

dateField.selectedDate = date;
intervalId2 = setInterval(this, "destroy",
2000);
}       

function myLoad():Void {
counter = 0;
date = new Date();
}

function startIterations():Void {
intervalId1 = setInterval(this, "create",
3000);  
}

function stopIterations():Void {
clearInterval(intervalId1);
}

]]>
</mx:Script>

<mx:VBox> 
<mx:ViewStack id="viewStack" />

<mx:Button label="start iterations"
click="startIterations()"/>
<mx:Button label="stop iterations"
click="stopIterations()"/>
<mx:Label text="{counter}" />
</mx:VBox>

</mx:Application>


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