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Roland684
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January 11, 2011
Question

Get free/used memory info

  • January 11, 2011
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I'm writing code for a system that is very limited in it's memory. I've written some code to cache the data and movieclips used, but eventually I'll need to free some memory before I run out (and flash is terminated)

Is there a way to find out
- how much memory flash/my .swf is using in total?
- how much memory is free?
- how much memory an object or movieclip (including it's children) occupy?

I'm looking for something to decide wether or not I should release some memory. it doesn't need to be very precise, just anything I can use as an indicator in actionscript 2.0

I've found that in Flash Lite I can use

Code:
fscommand2("GetTotalPlayerMemory")
fscommand2("GetFreePlayerMemory");

but unfortunately I'm not using Flash Lite and these commands don't seem to exist in flash 7+.

Is there anything I could use?

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kglad
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kgladCommunity Expert
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January 11, 2011

as3 has a few properties of the System class you can use.  just create an as3 swf with the needed memory checking code and have it load your as2 file for development purposes.

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Roland684Author
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January 11, 2011

With your suggestion I can calculate how much memory known data occupies (at design time). Unfortunately I do not know what will be loaded. It will be tekst and images, but at design-time I do not know how much text or how many images.

Even worse: I do not know how much memory will be available. This can vary greatly from run to run.

kglad
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kgladCommunity Expert
Community Expert
January 11, 2011

what would you do about it if your app is running on a problematic machine?

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