Hi all, I've been coding in Flex now for a few months (basically since the 2.0 Alpha came out) and I've been having a heck of a problem with memory leaks.
I was curious if there's any kind of rules or best practices to use for cleaning up AS objects (destructors? finalize()? or other?) This is especially pertinent because I am using lists/hash's, charts, and RPC Services. I couldn't really find any documentation regarding clean-up and memory leaks. Does anyone out there have any experiences/knowledge to share? Below, I'll outline my architecture, and note that I have no cleanup/de-construction code right now at all, other than setting variable references to new objects or null. Sorry it's pretty long, so if you want to stop reading here and provide any ideas you have, feel free =) thanks, Thunder _____________ Basically I am running dynamic DB queries through a singleton RemoteObject called by a "ChartResults" class that holds the results (e4x XML) of the query and metadata info related to it. I have employed the "Asynchronous Completion Token" documented approach to allow the ChartResults classes to pick out only their calls from the singleton R.O. Is this detrimental to performance if there are anywhere from 4-10 SQL calls possibly going through the one RemoteObject? (note - that's an upper limit during initial startup only) The ChartResults class caches information as it is retrieved from the results (often after performing filtering/sorting, etc). When a new query result comes in, the I clear all the cache items by setting the hash objects or Array to null or new Object/Array respectively. 1 - Does setting a property referencing a Collection to null also release the source Array held in it? 2 - Do I also need to set each item in the Array to null? 3 - If a hash Object had many different XMLList properties cached, do I need to iterate and null all these properties using introspection? Also, on the Chart side, I have been deleting the series array and creating a new one when re-populating the chart (if it is showing entirely new/different data). 4 - Do I need to do any cleanup of the series items maybe? 5 - Are the Series getting cleaned up and releasing their dataProvider objects? Somewhere I am leaking memory badly as the number of chart queries goes up and up... Thanks again! Thunder -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
