ActionScript 3.0 :: Movieclip = Null; Garbage Collecting?
Jul 26, 2010
after strolling through the internet looking for garbage collecting of dynamic movieclips i conceded and justified to myself i should make a forum post.I'm making a small game, with many many explosions. Explosions are random swfs which i cache before using them. Problem is that although i did everything to make them ready for garbage collecting, they seem to overflow the memory.my code:
Code:
package
{
import flash.display.MovieClip;[code]....
the last line, 'e.target.parent=null ', is the way i know how to make movieclips ready for garbage collecting. But if i uncomment the line, I get this error:
Code:
ReferenceError: Error #1074: Illegal write to read-only property parent on example03_fla.MainTimeline.
at Explosions/::doneHandler()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/
example03_fla is the timeline of the supposed movieclip i'm trying to delete, not the document fla.
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