on 6/3/01 8:53 PM, Al Hospers at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> like Mark, after all my bitching about it I have used D8 for over a dozen
> very large projects over the past year & I have not had the problems you are
> experiencing. there must be something that is different here. FWIW I never
> use play play done, I always use go movie. I also do a lot of OOP coding &
> like you specifically unloading stuff. I do, however, sometimes throw in a
> unload and unloadMember command for good measure when there are a lot of
> movies being loaded & unloaded.
I like the play/play done, because Director will go back to the same place
it was in the original movie, without having to track the frame and point to
it when returning. Also the startmovie doesn't execute again, which I use
for some initialization and assorted setup routines. And in watching the
memory usage in Task manager, when I go to the movie with a play, its like
executing a UNLOAD. Memory resets back down to its initial starting point.
I don't nest the play/play dones, in fact I only have three of them. I
execute one at a time and the memory problems where happening LONG before a
user would ever get to one of those external movies.
Thanks for the help,
JRS
p.s. I am amazed that no one else has encountered memory problems like this
before in 8. I made a small test file and letting Director handle the
flushing of memory, I saw similar problems. What a pain in the butt. :(
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