Roger, thank you for your quick response. Does the module factory hold information (module ID, URL etc...) about the modules I have loaded?
How important is it to unload modules? If I remove a specific tab from the navigator will GC eventually clean up the child module on that tab? Aaron --- In [email protected], "Roger Gonzalez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The URL for a given module is a unique key for the module at that URL, > no matter how many times you get it. Each time you get a ModuleInfo, > you can use it to request an unload. (Note that unload just makes > things available for GC, it does not force things to unload.) > > There's no reason why you need to always put the module info into a > single variable though, of course its going to get overridden. You > could always keep an array of module infos. Or, you can just call > getModule again. No big deal. > > -rg > > > ________________________________ > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of aaronvm707 > Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2007 10:13 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [flexcoders] Managing Multiple Modules > > > > Hello, I am trying to create an application that has a tab > navigator > that gets loaded with different modules, similar to a browser > window > opening multiple tabs. I have tried different methods but do not > know > how to get a reference to a module to unload it once multiple > modules > have been loaded. This is the code I am using to load the > modules: > > public var info:IModuleInfo; > > private function LoadModule(strUrl:String):void > { > info = ModuleManager.getModule(strUrl); > > info.addEventListener(ModuleEvent.READY, modEventHandler); > info.load(); > } > private function modEventHandler(e:ModuleEvent):void > { > var m:Module = info.factory.create() as Module; > myTabs.addChild(m); > } > > This code works very well to load as many modules as I need. The > > problem is the public var info gets updated as each new module > get > loaded. So I do I get an IModuleInfo object for a module that > has > already been loaded that I can then call the unload() method. > Please > any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks > > Aaron >
