>>> Note that there is a nasty bug in FileIO Xtra which will crash Director is
>>> you try repeating through a large list creating files.
>>
>> What is your basis for this claim. I've used FileIO extensively and not had
>> this problem. What version of Director? What OS?
>
>Hi Bruce,
>Sorry - I should have been more explicit. I use FileIO extensively without
>much problem, except that I have found that in Authoring Mode on a Mac, that
>if I repeat through a large list creating text files, Director will crash or
>'quit out unexpectedly' part way through the list.
How large a list? Certainly, I've never created 1000 text files with it
inside a loop.
>This has happened quite
>consistently over the years (Different versions of Director, MacOS - most
>recently, MacOS 9.0.4 and D7, FileIO 7.0.2r85 - I think it was). I was told
>years ago that there was a memory leak with FileIO and that it 'was a known
>problem' about creating several files within a repeat loop - and my
>experiences seemed to confirm this. I've never really bothered to verify the
>claim, happy with workarounds that work fine (such as writing the files out
>on stepframe or some other threaded system). If you've never heard of the
>problem, then it may well be a furphy.
Furphy? I suspect that if you don't give director a chance to do garbage
collection, it could become an issue. Are you repeatedly instantiating the
instance or using a single instance throughout? I'd recommend the latter.
If you have a simple test you want to send over, I'll try it out.
Bruce
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