granted that the eventListener was added with a weak reference
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 3:35 PM, EECOLOR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> *if (this.basicNews != null) {
> this.basicNews.removeEventListener(RepeaterEvent.CLICK,
> this.onNewsClicked);
> this.removeChild(this.basicNews);
> this.basicNews.die();
> this.basicNews = null;
> }*
>
> In the above code I do not see why you would need any more then the
> following lines:
>
> *basicNews = null;
> removeChild(basicNews);*
>
> All references to basicNews are now removed and it is (along with its
> children) marked for garbage collection. Calling the other extra methods
> seems a waste of CPU.
>
>
> Greetz Erik
>
>
> On 4/1/08, Cedric Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I did develop a global process, in which my customized objects do have a
> > 'die' method which is called in the end of an object's life in order to
> > clean *everything* (like removing internal movieclips, sprites,
> listeners,
> > timers, ..)
> >
> > this is what I came up with: the following block code is part of
> > MyWhateverObject die method:
> >
> > // basicNews is some basic Repeater ....
> > if (this.basicNews != null) {
> > this.basicNews.removeEventListener(RepeaterEvent.CLICK,
> > this.onNewsClicked);
> > this.removeChild(this.basicNews);
> > this.basicNews.die();
> > this.basicNews = null;
> > }
> >
> > my question is the following: when would you call the basicNews.die()
> > method ? BEFORE or AFTER the 'this.removeChild(this.basicNews)' ?
> >
> > tia,
> > Cedric
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