At 13:20 -0400 04/10/2002, Cole Tierney wrote:
>That's what I used to think, but check it out (from D6.5 help):
>
>Normal allows Director to purge cast members from memory at random
>
><snip>
>
>This statement sets the purge priority of cast member Background to
>2, which makes it one of the first cast members to be purged when
>memory is needed:
>set the purgePriority of member "Background" to 2
Mmm, There's the more or less same passage from the 8.5 docs, page
402, but then there's this:
Example: This statement sets the purge priority of cast member
Background to 3, which makes it one of the first cast members to be
purged when memory is needed:
member("Background").purgePriority = 3
I believe "at random" should be taken to mean "as needed" for pP 3.
When you set it to 2, Director tries to hold onto that stuff as long
as it can, until all the 3-level is gone. After all the 2 is gone
too, it goes to 1.
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