The "note:" under .purgePriority in Director 8 Demystified's Lingo Dictionary says that the term "next" means that it's the next highest priority, not the next to be unloaded.
Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group http://www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Howdy-Tzi Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 1:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: <lingo-l> animation slows down as progresses!! 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. -- Warren Ockrassa | http://www.nightwares.com/ Director help | Free files | Sample chapters | Freelance | Consulting Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Published by Osborne/McGraw-Hill http://www.osborne.com/indexes/beginners_guides.shtml [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
