Dar, you bring up some good points here thanks. i've been burned by that
before.
I do want to mention that I reported a bug a while back where not all
messages were sent while wait with messages. panos seemed to have
confirmed that problem, but it hasn't moved since.
Maybe that part of the
Yeah, "GUI recursion" is a little obtuse.
I'm referring to a style of using wait with messages inside an event handler so
that other events (especially keyboard and mouse) can be handled. Sometimes
this is done to allow a "background" task. It is easy to do this in a way that
makes a mess of
And 'open printing to PDF' is yet another part of LC905rc1 still not
Unicode aware. https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=22385
Filename/paths and PDF document property options can not be Unicode.
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HH...yup I know.. Dar, thanks for those hints and tidbits, I'll be
putting those right into my pocket as i optimize code going forward.
I have pretty good cleanup habits, so I am getting good results with how
it is (in 9.05) . but sometimes its scary. It like the GC happens only
when
I don't know where you will find details. (Maybe if we keep this conversation
going, we will get a response in a half day.)
I believe it is reference-counting with lazy cleanup for high-level objects,
but with carefully crafted destructors for low level objects. Because of the
lazy cleanup, it
LC 9.0.5 closed at about 42 memory leaks ...
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Hi folks, I'm wondering if anyone can help me to understand Livecode's
garbage collection. I am developing an application that is intended to
stay in memory and so I must watch memory consumption carefully. I've had
some instances where memory ran way out of control but I found a couple
of
Patrick, someone wrote this on the FB Livecode Group.. just thought I'd
drop it in here.
"I am struggling to get from the basic stuff to a higher level. It seems
that every book I find either talks about the very basics or its content
goes clear over my head. Any advices?"
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