Frames aren't objects in memory; they are just concepts. (Key)frames are
simply time markers when actions occur. Some of these actions are authored
as ActionScript code; others are authored graphically, but the latter are
the equivalent of writing addChild() and removeChild() statements to the
Objects removed at any key
frame therefore should be eligible for garbage collection, assuming no event
listeners or other code created a reference to them.
Yes.
Another problem is: even if no listener or code references to these
objects, they continue playing when they are removed by a
@Jason,
Yes, that is the sad truth I was hoping to avoid here. It's just another
argument for adobe developing a built in Frame class.
@Olivier,
While listening for REMOVED_FROM_STAGE is a nice trick, its just one more
listener to remove as part of clean. I'll trust myself to stop, close and
You are asking a key question with AS3. Cleaning up movie clips is *hard*.
There is a list of things that must be done, and they've made it hard to do
all that.
Here's a decent place to start reading:
http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2008/04/failure_to_unlo.html
2009/1/14 Joel Stransky
I've read that before. a couple of times. The question here is what happens
to frames after the playhead leaves, not when Loader.unload() is called. I
wasn't sure if each frame had their own display list or or just one per
timeline. It seems like the sensible thing to do would have been to make a
If you declare target_mc in your Parent class and addChild(target_mc)it does
exist everywhere.
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Are you saying display lists are persistent through an entire movieclips
timeline?
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 7:32 AM, Cor c...@chello.nl wrote:
If you declare target_mc in your Parent class and addChild(target_mc)it
does exist everywhere.
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I know this is old news and most of you have just left timelines and mc's
for dead and moved on. But I'm having a hard time believing AS3 screwed us
this bad. I'm also just now getting hip enough with as3 to understand the
topic.
I've created a little test case involving a parent.swf and a
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