At 13:14 -0700 04/10/2002, Kerry Thompson wrote:
[me]
>> unloadMember() with no params might help.
>>
>It often does--good suggestion.
>
>But, a caveat. It can cause a crash in Windows in some cases.
But Kerry, Windows is *so stable*. Howe is that possible?
Actually I've had nothing but grief dealing with unloads since
Director 5, and *always* in Windows. Win16 used to take a dump
whenever you used unload on anything Director was trying to use,
provided that "anything" was a sound file and you had certain types
of soundcard.
I know there are lots of tight-mem situations where unloading
explicitly might be justified, and I know many people use it. I try
like hell not to. In my experience it is almost always better to make
a file that doesn't need active purging like that than it is to try
and push things. Betting on the stability of the end-user's machine
is generally a losing wager.
--
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