[Flashcoders] phantom flash class instance
Ok, this is a flash question I've got a class I'm using in an app - it's really simple, just is a 'slideshow' type class; it gets a list of images and cycles through them as a slideshow with an interval between. Now it's being used in a movieclip that is in turn being loaded in a Window component. When a user clicks the window component close button, I've got it unloading the movieclip instance; but the slideshow class still tries to continue cycling through it's images array -- ie it's 'instance' is still going even though the movieclip that birthed it is gone. For example: the slideshow class, upon birth, gets it's 'owner/parent' movieclip upon it's birth. It then creates a new movieclip (myBack) and starts attaching jpgs to the myBack instance. When the main screen movieclip in the Window instance is removed, myBack no longer has a _url because it doesn't exist. I thought I could use the fact that myBack==undefined to clearInterval() and stop the phantom slideshow, but it doesn't stop. So how does one 'unload' a class, or really, a class instance? ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] phantom flash class instance
Hi, implement a destroy method in the class, in which you tell it to release all its own reference, next release all reference to the object itself. Make sure there are no hidden references, (delegates, setIntervals, movieclip pointers, globals) etc to the instance, so it can be garbage collected. greetz JC On 10/19/06, grimmwerks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, this is a flash question I've got a class I'm using in an app - it's really simple, just is a 'slideshow' type class; it gets a list of images and cycles through them as a slideshow with an interval between. Now it's being used in a movieclip that is in turn being loaded in a Window component. When a user clicks the window component close button, I've got it unloading the movieclip instance; but the slideshow class still tries to continue cycling through it's images array -- ie it's 'instance' is still going even though the movieclip that birthed it is gone. For example: the slideshow class, upon birth, gets it's 'owner/parent' movieclip upon it's birth. It then creates a new movieclip (myBack) and starts attaching jpgs to the myBack instance. When the main screen movieclip in the Window instance is removed, myBack no longer has a _url because it doesn't exist. I thought I could use the fact that myBack==undefined to clearInterval() and stop the phantom slideshow, but it doesn't stop. So how does one 'unload' a class, or really, a class instance? ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] phantom flash class instance
You have to remove the interval before the slideshow gets removed.
You can add an onUnload method in the slideshow class.
class SlideShow extends MovieClip {
function SlideShow() {
}
function onUnload() {
// remove interval
}
}
regards,
Muzak
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Subject: [Flashcoders] phantom flash class instance
Ok, this is a flash question
I've got a class I'm using in an app - it's really simple, just is a
'slideshow' type class; it gets a list of images and cycles through
them as a slideshow with an interval between.
Now it's being used in a movieclip that is in turn being loaded in a
Window component. When a user clicks the window component close
button, I've got it unloading the movieclip instance; but the
slideshow class still tries to continue cycling through it's images
array -- ie it's 'instance' is still going even though the movieclip
that birthed it is gone.
For example: the slideshow class, upon birth, gets it's 'owner/parent'
movieclip upon it's birth. It then creates a new movieclip (myBack)
and starts attaching jpgs to the myBack instance. When the main screen
movieclip in the Window instance is removed, myBack no longer has a
_url because it doesn't exist. I thought I could use the fact that
myBack==undefined to clearInterval() and stop the phantom slideshow,
but it doesn't stop.
So how does one 'unload' a class, or really, a class instance?
___
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