Re: [Flashcoders] Automatic quality toggle
I have pretty good experience exporting to QuickTime right from Flash - though others swear it's problematic (maybe they are doing it wrong?). If you want to keep the vector animation, and if fullscreen is your main problem, you can use a fullScreenRect to force the renderer to a smaller draw area. You wouldn't get the full native resolution of the user's monitor, but this is the same restraint as using an flv file. 720p (1280x720) would look good - if it's really complex, you could go even smaller. There are other optimizations your animators could use during production, including cacheAsBitmap, or pre-rendering certain complex vector art. Kevin N. On 2/26/11 5:10 AM, Henrik Andersson wrote: Christoffer Enedahl skriver: It sounds like it's time to encode the flash animation to video. For some of the cases, yeah. You are right in that encoding to video would solve the issue for local playback. Give me a shout when you find a tool that actually can do it properly. But it is not acceptable for online distribution. I myself hate people uploading video encodings of their vector animations. It's needlessly big files and the quality just isn't as good as the source material. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Automatic quality toggle
Kevin Newman skriver: I have pretty good experience exporting to QuickTime right from Flash - though others swear it's problematic (maybe they are doing it wrong?). Maybe they are using actionscript? ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Automatic quality toggle
I developed an AIR app to export SWF to PNG sequences: http://swfrenderer.kurst.co.uk We developed it because flash was skipping frames and animation was not overly smooth on CPU intensive movies (be it code or timeline). We also had a few issues with the CS5 PNG/Movie exporter. It works with timeline animation and dynamic / coded animations (AS2/3) - and works well as long as tweens use frames instead of timecode. (for tweenmax, it's the useFrame property for tweens). Hope it helps someone... - karim On 26 Feb 2011, at 14:02, Latcho wrote: I hate super heavy cpu supersucker vector animations online, I prefer streaming video :) And vector animations compress way nicer to video as photographic content does. I think it is simple to write a tool that onenterframe captures any (swf-loaded) animation frame to a bitmap, which you can save with AIR as a jpg or png. Easy to combine this jpg's to an mjpeg video stream in any reasonable videopackage or with ffmpeg ( http://www.ffmpeg.org/faq.html#SEC14 ). On 2/26/2011 11:10 AM, Henrik Andersson wrote: Christoffer Enedahl skriver: It sounds like it's time to encode the flash animation to video. For some of the cases, yeah. You are right in that encoding to video would solve the issue for local playback. Give me a shout when you find a tool that actually can do it properly. But it is not acceptable for online distribution. I myself hate people uploading video encodings of their vector animations. It's needlessly big files and the quality just isn't as good as the source material. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Automatic quality toggle
Actionscript works when exporting to QT ... Kevin N. On 3/3/11 12:15 PM, Henrik Andersson wrote: Kevin Newman skriver: I have pretty good experience exporting to QuickTime right from Flash - though others swear it's problematic (maybe they are doing it wrong?). Maybe they are using actionscript? ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Automatic quality toggle
Have you ever tried switching to 1FPS for exporting to QT? I wonder if that would skip fewer frames. You'd need to multiply your time based animations by whatever factor though... Kevin N. On 3/3/11 12:31 PM, Karim Beyrouti wrote: I developed an AIR app to export SWF to PNG sequences: http://swfrenderer.kurst.co.uk We developed it because flash was skipping frames and animation was not overly smooth on CPU intensive movies (be it code or timeline). We also had a few issues with the CS5 PNG/Movie exporter. It works with timeline animation and dynamic / coded animations (AS2/3) - and works well as long as tweens use frames instead of timecode. (for tweenmax, it's the useFrame property for tweens). Hope it helps someone... - karim On 26 Feb 2011, at 14:02, Latcho wrote: I hate super heavy cpu supersucker vector animations online, I prefer streaming video :) And vector animations compress way nicer to video as photographic content does. I think it is simple to write a tool that onenterframe captures any (swf-loaded) animation frame to a bitmap, which you can save with AIR as a jpg or png. Easy to combine this jpg's to an mjpeg video stream in any reasonable videopackage or with ffmpeg ( http://www.ffmpeg.org/faq.html#SEC14 ). On 2/26/2011 11:10 AM, Henrik Andersson wrote: Christoffer Enedahl skriver: It sounds like it's time to encode the flash animation to video. For some of the cases, yeah. You are right in that encoding to video would solve the issue for local playback. Give me a shout when you find a tool that actually can do it properly. But it is not acceptable for online distribution. I myself hate people uploading video encodings of their vector animations. It's needlessly big files and the quality just isn't as good as the source material. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Automatic quality toggle
i've done this trick and it works great, and it was a scripted animation... On 3 March 2011 18:51, Kevin Newman capta...@unfocus.com wrote: Have you ever tried switching to 1FPS for exporting to QT? I wonder if that would skip fewer frames. You'd need to multiply your time based animations by whatever factor though... Kevin N. On 3/3/11 12:31 PM, Karim Beyrouti wrote: I developed an AIR app to export SWF to PNG sequences: http://swfrenderer.kurst.co.uk We developed it because flash was skipping frames and animation was not overly smooth on CPU intensive movies (be it code or timeline). We also had a few issues with the CS5 PNG/Movie exporter. It works with timeline animation and dynamic / coded animations (AS2/3) - and works well as long as tweens use frames instead of timecode. (for tweenmax, it's the useFrame property for tweens). Hope it helps someone... - karim On 26 Feb 2011, at 14:02, Latcho wrote: I hate super heavy cpu supersucker vector animations online, I prefer streaming video :) And vector animations compress way nicer to video as photographic content does. I think it is simple to write a tool that onenterframe captures any (swf-loaded) animation frame to a bitmap, which you can save with AIR as a jpg or png. Easy to combine this jpg's to an mjpeg video stream in any reasonable videopackage or with ffmpeg ( http://www.ffmpeg.org/faq.html#SEC14 ). On 2/26/2011 11:10 AM, Henrik Andersson wrote: Christoffer Enedahl skriver: It sounds like it's time to encode the flash animation to video. For some of the cases, yeah. You are right in that encoding to video would solve the issue for local playback. Give me a shout when you find a tool that actually can do it properly. But it is not acceptable for online distribution. I myself hate people uploading video encodings of their vector animations. It's needlessly big files and the quality just isn't as good as the source material. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] IE not releasing memory after unloading Flash object
Hi list, I'm using SWFObject 2.2 (dynamic embed) to display my Flash content. In IE7 on WinXP the Windows Task Manager shows that the 'iexplore' process isn't releasing memory after the window containing my Flash is closed. I've tried explicitly calling SWFObject's 'cleanupSWFs' and 'removeSWF' methods in the 'onbeforeunload' event of my HTML page, but with no change in the result. Is it correct to assume that (regardless of Flash memory management and garbage collection issues) closing the browser window should remove the Flash Player from the IE DOM and release the memory it was using? Any advice appreciated, C: This e-mail, including any attached files, may contain confidential and privileged information for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any review, use, distribution, or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive information for the intended recipient), please contact the sender by reply e-mail and delete all copies of this message. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] IE not releasing memory after unloading Flash object
Hi Chris, Do you have any listeners that look for the system? IE: system capabilities, monitor size, mouse position, etc, or just listeners in general. Try removing the listeners before garbage collection and unload. HTH, Karl On Mar 3, 2011, at 4:45 PM, Chris Foster wrote: Hi list, I'm using SWFObject 2.2 (dynamic embed) to display my Flash content. In IE7 on WinXP the Windows Task Manager shows that the 'iexplore' process isn't releasing memory after the window containing my Flash is closed. I've tried explicitly calling SWFObject's 'cleanupSWFs' and 'removeSWF' methods in the 'onbeforeunload' event of my HTML page, but with no change in the result. Is it correct to assume that (regardless of Flash memory management and garbage collection issues) closing the browser window should remove the Flash Player from the IE DOM and release the memory it was using? Any advice appreciated, C: This e-mail, including any attached files, may contain confidential and privileged information for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any review, use, distribution, or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive information for the intended recipient), please contact the sender by reply e-mail and delete all copies of this message. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] IE not releasing memory after unloading Flash object
I *think* my listeners are all under control Karl - but I'm still interested in whether my assumption is correct or not - does closing the browser window Completely remove the Flash Player instance from the IE DOM and release the memory it was using? (not Flash memory, but memory used by IE, as visible in the Task Manager) -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Karl DeSaulniers Sent: Friday, 4 March 2011 9:53 AM To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] IE not releasing memory after unloading Flash object Hi Chris, Do you have any listeners that look for the system? IE: system capabilities, monitor size, mouse position, etc, or just listeners in general. Try removing the listeners before garbage collection and unload. HTH, Karl On Mar 3, 2011, at 4:45 PM, Chris Foster wrote: Hi list, I'm using SWFObject 2.2 (dynamic embed) to display my Flash content. In IE7 on WinXP the Windows Task Manager shows that the 'iexplore' process isn't releasing memory after the window containing my Flash is closed. I've tried explicitly calling SWFObject's 'cleanupSWFs' and 'removeSWF' methods in the 'onbeforeunload' event of my HTML page, but with no change in the result. Is it correct to assume that (regardless of Flash memory management and garbage collection issues) closing the browser window should remove the Flash Player from the IE DOM and release the memory it was using? Any advice appreciated, C: This e-mail, including any attached files, may contain confidential and privileged information for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any review, use, distribution, or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive information for the intended recipient), please contact the sender by reply e-mail and delete all copies of this message. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] IE not releasing memory after unloading Flash object
My *guess* is it does not release until you 1. close IE all together, or 2. Pull up the same file name and it not be the exact same file, IE:edits were made to the file. Pulled new from the server. or 3. have more time go before letting the page change or window close. (Not the best recommendation) It eventually will catch up and it will clear, but garbage collection as a whole is an unpredictable beast. I have always had a problem with IE caching my SWFs and almost fighting to let them go. Does this same behavior happen for you in other browsers? Or just IE? Have you looked into a Javascript DOM garbage collection? Maybe do garbage collection on the swf, the swfObject and the DOM? Sorry not much more help. Best, Karl On Mar 3, 2011, at 5:23 PM, Chris Foster wrote: I *think* my listeners are all under control Karl - but I'm still interested in whether my assumption is correct or not - does closing the browser window Completely remove the Flash Player instance from the IE DOM and release the memory it was using? (not Flash memory, but memory used by IE, as visible in the Task Manager) -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Karl DeSaulniers Sent: Friday, 4 March 2011 9:53 AM To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] IE not releasing memory after unloading Flash object Hi Chris, Do you have any listeners that look for the system? IE: system capabilities, monitor size, mouse position, etc, or just listeners in general. Try removing the listeners before garbage collection and unload. HTH, Karl On Mar 3, 2011, at 4:45 PM, Chris Foster wrote: Hi list, I'm using SWFObject 2.2 (dynamic embed) to display my Flash content. In IE7 on WinXP the Windows Task Manager shows that the 'iexplore' process isn't releasing memory after the window containing my Flash is closed. I've tried explicitly calling SWFObject's 'cleanupSWFs' and 'removeSWF' methods in the 'onbeforeunload' event of my HTML page, but with no change in the result. Is it correct to assume that (regardless of Flash memory management and garbage collection issues) closing the browser window should remove the Flash Player from the IE DOM and release the memory it was using? Any advice appreciated, C: This e-mail, including any attached files, may contain confidential and privileged information for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any review, use, distribution, or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive information for the intended recipient), please contact the sender by reply e-mail and delete all copies of this message. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] IE not releasing memory after unloading Flash object
One last thought, have you tried a no-cache on your swf? Best, Karl On Mar 3, 2011, at 6:07 PM, Karl DeSaulniers wrote: My *guess* is it does not release until you 1. close IE all together, or 2. Pull up the same file name and it not be the exact same file, IE:edits were made to the file. Pulled new from the server. or 3. have more time go before letting the page change or window close. (Not the best recommendation) It eventually will catch up and it will clear, but garbage collection as a whole is an unpredictable beast. I have always had a problem with IE caching my SWFs and almost fighting to let them go. Does this same behavior happen for you in other browsers? Or just IE? Have you looked into a Javascript DOM garbage collection? Maybe do garbage collection on the swf, the swfObject and the DOM? Sorry not much more help. Best, Karl On Mar 3, 2011, at 5:23 PM, Chris Foster wrote: I *think* my listeners are all under control Karl - but I'm still interested in whether my assumption is correct or not - does closing the browser window Completely remove the Flash Player instance from the IE DOM and release the memory it was using? (not Flash memory, but memory used by IE, as visible in the Task Manager) -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Karl DeSaulniers Sent: Friday, 4 March 2011 9:53 AM To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] IE not releasing memory after unloading Flash object Hi Chris, Do you have any listeners that look for the system? IE: system capabilities, monitor size, mouse position, etc, or just listeners in general. Try removing the listeners before garbage collection and unload. HTH, Karl On Mar 3, 2011, at 4:45 PM, Chris Foster wrote: Hi list, I'm using SWFObject 2.2 (dynamic embed) to display my Flash content. In IE7 on WinXP the Windows Task Manager shows that the 'iexplore' process isn't releasing memory after the window containing my Flash is closed. I've tried explicitly calling SWFObject's 'cleanupSWFs' and 'removeSWF' methods in the 'onbeforeunload' event of my HTML page, but with no change in the result. Is it correct to assume that (regardless of Flash memory management and garbage collection issues) closing the browser window should remove the Flash Player from the IE DOM and release the memory it was using? Any advice appreciated, C: This e-mail, including any attached files, may contain confidential and privileged information for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any review, use, distribution, or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive information for the intended recipient), please contact the sender by reply e-mail and delete all copies of this message. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
RE: [Flashcoders] IE not releasing memory after unloading Flash object
Yeah, the SWF is definitely not caching... But I've also found something that does seem to work... instead of calling window.close(), calling window.location.refresh() clears the previously consumed memory. It's only a hack at the moment, but it seems repeatable, so if needs be I can work this into a solution. C: -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Karl DeSaulniers Sent: Friday, 4 March 2011 12:08 PM To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] IE not releasing memory after unloading Flash object One last thought, have you tried a no-cache on your swf? Best, Karl On Mar 3, 2011, at 6:07 PM, Karl DeSaulniers wrote: My *guess* is it does not release until you 1. close IE all together, or 2. Pull up the same file name and it not be the exact same file, IE:edits were made to the file. Pulled new from the server. or 3. have more time go before letting the page change or window close. (Not the best recommendation) It eventually will catch up and it will clear, but garbage collection as a whole is an unpredictable beast. I have always had a problem with IE caching my SWFs and almost fighting to let them go. Does this same behavior happen for you in other browsers? Or just IE? Have you looked into a Javascript DOM garbage collection? Maybe do garbage collection on the swf, the swfObject and the DOM? Sorry not much more help. Best, Karl On Mar 3, 2011, at 5:23 PM, Chris Foster wrote: I *think* my listeners are all under control Karl - but I'm still interested in whether my assumption is correct or not - does closing the browser window Completely remove the Flash Player instance from the IE DOM and release the memory it was using? (not Flash memory, but memory used by IE, as visible in the Task Manager) -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Karl DeSaulniers Sent: Friday, 4 March 2011 9:53 AM To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] IE not releasing memory after unloading Flash object Hi Chris, Do you have any listeners that look for the system? IE: system capabilities, monitor size, mouse position, etc, or just listeners in general. Try removing the listeners before garbage collection and unload. HTH, Karl On Mar 3, 2011, at 4:45 PM, Chris Foster wrote: Hi list, I'm using SWFObject 2.2 (dynamic embed) to display my Flash content. In IE7 on WinXP the Windows Task Manager shows that the 'iexplore' process isn't releasing memory after the window containing my Flash is closed. I've tried explicitly calling SWFObject's 'cleanupSWFs' and 'removeSWF' methods in the 'onbeforeunload' event of my HTML page, but with no change in the result. Is it correct to assume that (regardless of Flash memory management and garbage collection issues) closing the browser window should remove the Flash Player from the IE DOM and release the memory it was using? Any advice appreciated, C: This e-mail, including any attached files, may contain confidential and privileged information for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any review, use, distribution, or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive information for the intended recipient), please contact the sender by reply e-mail and delete all copies of this message. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] IE not releasing memory after unloading Flash object
Ahh, then did you try them one after another maybe? window.location.refresh(); window.close(); Never tried that myself, but if the refresh clears the memory and all you want is the window closed, makes sense to me. Best, Karl On Mar 3, 2011, at 7:28 PM, Chris Foster wrote: Yeah, the SWF is definitely not caching... But I've also found something that does seem to work... instead of calling window.close(), calling window.location.refresh() clears the previously consumed memory. It's only a hack at the moment, but it seems repeatable, so if needs be I can work this into a solution. C: -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Karl DeSaulniers Sent: Friday, 4 March 2011 12:08 PM To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] IE not releasing memory after unloading Flash object One last thought, have you tried a no-cache on your swf? Best, Karl On Mar 3, 2011, at 6:07 PM, Karl DeSaulniers wrote: My *guess* is it does not release until you 1. close IE all together, or 2. Pull up the same file name and it not be the exact same file, IE:edits were made to the file. Pulled new from the server. or 3. have more time go before letting the page change or window close. (Not the best recommendation) It eventually will catch up and it will clear, but garbage collection as a whole is an unpredictable beast. I have always had a problem with IE caching my SWFs and almost fighting to let them go. Does this same behavior happen for you in other browsers? Or just IE? Have you looked into a Javascript DOM garbage collection? Maybe do garbage collection on the swf, the swfObject and the DOM? Sorry not much more help. Best, Karl On Mar 3, 2011, at 5:23 PM, Chris Foster wrote: I *think* my listeners are all under control Karl - but I'm still interested in whether my assumption is correct or not - does closing the browser window Completely remove the Flash Player instance from the IE DOM and release the memory it was using? (not Flash memory, but memory used by IE, as visible in the Task Manager) -Original Message- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Karl DeSaulniers Sent: Friday, 4 March 2011 9:53 AM To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] IE not releasing memory after unloading Flash object Hi Chris, Do you have any listeners that look for the system? IE: system capabilities, monitor size, mouse position, etc, or just listeners in general. Try removing the listeners before garbage collection and unload. HTH, Karl On Mar 3, 2011, at 4:45 PM, Chris Foster wrote: Hi list, I'm using SWFObject 2.2 (dynamic embed) to display my Flash content. In IE7 on WinXP the Windows Task Manager shows that the 'iexplore' process isn't releasing memory after the window containing my Flash is closed. I've tried explicitly calling SWFObject's 'cleanupSWFs' and 'removeSWF' methods in the 'onbeforeunload' event of my HTML page, but with no change in the result. Is it correct to assume that (regardless of Flash memory management and garbage collection issues) closing the browser window should remove the Flash Player from the IE DOM and release the memory it was using? Any advice appreciated, C: This e-mail, including any attached files, may contain confidential and privileged information for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any review, use, distribution, or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive information for the intended recipient), please contact the sender by reply e-mail and delete all copies of this message. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com
