All,
It's also worth noting that you must take a little extra caution in your clean-up
routines when using timeout objects. For these objects you really must remember to
forget them and then set their referring variable to VOID:
property pTimeoutObject
on new me
pTimeoutObject= timeout("testing").new(50,#someHandler,me)
return me
end
on mCleanUp me
pTimeoutObject.forget()
pTimeoutObject = VOID
end
on someHandler
...
end
Failure to take this extra step can lead to orphaned timeout objects lingering
unreferenced yet functioning in memory. AFAIK, Director/Shockwave is doing some
internal/under-the-hood tracking and it will retain a reference to the timeout object
until you explicitly forget it (that internal reference keeps the object from getting
cleared from memory), setting your prop to VOID or zero will not suffice.
Cheers,
Tom
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