At 09:29 -0500 02/22/2002, Carol Mahaffy wrote:
>i sent out a previous post about memory leaks on a cd i was creating. Well
>it seems that after much tracking that when you tart playing a quicktime
>then jump to a different section before that is done playing it doesn't
>release the memory.
Hmm, that's interesting, all right. I hadn't heard that one before,
but not much would surprise me either. ;)
>So my question is this, i know i can detect going
>somewhere else with in th cd but is there anything to (for lack of a better
>word) shut off the qt? or make it inactive?
on endSprite me
sprite(me.spriteNum).member.movieRate = 0
end
Slap that onto your QT sprites. When the play head leaves the frame
forever, the file stops. There are variants you can use; for instance
you can set the movieRate when the user clicks a navigation button
instead of waiting for endSprite events.
There's a pretty good list of QT-related commands in the Lingo by
Feature section at the front of the 8/8.5 Lingo docs; perhaps some of
the stuff there is worth trying. (For instance perhaps instead you
could cause the play to jump to the last frame of the QT file, then
move to another section.)
But you know 4 percent per launch is infinitesimal, compared to the
300+ Mb that Windows itself leaks every time you boot. ;)
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