Recently, Geoff Canyon wrote:
> So I created one tile as a gif, created an image, and imported
> the image as a file reference. The standard board contains over 250
> squares. So I blithely wrote two repeats to get me an arrangement of
> 16x16 of these images, each using a file reference to pull in the same
> gif file. BOOM! goes MetaCard on the Mac. So I up the default partition
> to 20mb, and all is well. Then I decide I want different sizes of board.
> I choose 20x20 as a nice maximum size, and run the board construction
> routine. No crash, but by the time MC is done, the Mac is reporting that
> MC is using over 30mb. Good for MC that it was able to grab what it
> needs, but still--30?
>
> The board construction routine does check and delete previous
> incarnations of the board, so I'm not piling up extra images. So what is
> causing the enormous appetite?
Are you using multiple imported image objects? Have you tried importing a
single image and then using button objects whose icon you set to the ID of
the image object? Perhaps this is worth a try.
Regards,
Scott
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