That's good thinking. I'll have to look into it some more. This one is just
hard to test since removeEventListener fails silently if the listener isn't
on the targets listener list.
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Ktu <ktu_fl...@cataclysmicrewind.com>wrote:
> I think I see a problem with this. I don't know how often GarbageCollection
> runs, but if the loader you create has no references to it, and the only
> event listener to it is set to have a weakReference, then the loader could
> get discarded before it finishes, unless the act of loading doesn't allow
> it
> to be removed.
>
> Otherwise, as far as I know, that looks like it should be fine to get
> reference to the loader again and remove the event listener.
> ?
>
> Ktu
>
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Joel Stransky <j...@stranskydesign.com
> >wrote:
>
> > I'm wondering if I can use a for loop to create local Loader objects,
> > assign
> > listeners to their LoaderInfo objects without overwriting any of them and
> > still be able to clean up after.
> >
> > Say I have the following inside a function body
> >
> > var img:Loader = new Loader();
> > img.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onThumb, false, 0,
> > true);
> > img.load(new URLRequest("someImage.jpg"));
> >
> > and the following handler
> >
> > private function onThumb(e:Event):void
> > {
> > var loader:Loader = Loader( LoaderInfo(e.target).loader );
> > loader.contentLoaderInfo.removeEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onThumb);
> > var thumbNail:Bitmap = new Bitmap(Bitmap(loader.content).bitmapData);
> > thumbNail.x = (itemWidth - thumbNail.width) / 2;
> > addChild(thumbNail);
> > }
> >
> > Will the handler work its way back to the Loader that was created
> > temporarily and remove a listener from it?
> > Is there a better way to using throw away loaders?
> >
> >
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