Once again, I owe a great big thanks to those on the list who helped me with this thing. As it turned out, the idle handler was the solution. However, it seems to me I remember some discusion on the list a while back about problems with idle handlers under certain circumstances. If anyone remembers what those problems were or where I can look them up, please let me know.
Thanks, Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software on 2/21/03 12:25 AM, Pierre Sahores at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dave Cragg wrote: >> >> At 12:14 pm -0800 20/2/03, Ray Horsley wrote: >>> Thank you xbury and Pierre, >>> >>> I appreciate the suggestions, however, I've opened all 36 stacks I'm using >>> for testing, set the Destroy Stack on Close and the Destroy Window on Close >>> to true, and I also set the Always Buffer to false for all of them. Sorry, >>> no change. I still find Metacard increasing in memory from about 17 megs to >>> a little over 30 if I go to or refer to each of them. Any other ideas? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >> >> I remember having a similar problem a few versions ago. I found that >> the stacks weren't cleared from memory until the current handler >> stopped running. So in a repeat loop like yours, memory won't get >> cleared until after the loop finishes. >> >> Things to try: >> >> Add a wait after you have handled a certain number of stacks. For >> example, you could try adding the following line at the end of your >> repeat loop to wait after every 5th stack: >> >> repeat with L=1 to number of lines of allStacks -- list of 30 stack paths >> ##other stuff here >> delete stack stackPath >> if L mod 5 = 0 then wait 100 milliseconds ##add this >> end repeat >> >> If that doesn't work, try using "send ... in <time>". Something like: >> >> repeat with L=1 to number of lines of allStacks -- list of 30 stack paths >> put line L of allStacks into stackPath >> send "doStuff stackpath" to me in 20 milliseconds >> end repeat >> >> on doStuff stackpath >> set the defaultStack to stackPath -- or go stack stack path >> -- do some stuff like set scripts and save the stack >> delete stack stackPath >> end doStuff >> >> Cheers >> Dave >> _______________________________________________ >> metacard mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard > > In the same way described by Dave, tou could, perhaps, get good results > in using a recursive command included in an "on idle" handler instead of > using your statements inside a repeat loop and in storing allstacks an > the lines to parse in allstacks in two global vars. _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
