How to unload resources?

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• techdojo Guru

  June 2012

  You also need to nil out any sprites, bitmaps or any other resources that are also using that texture first, if any references to the data / resource still exist then they'll never get garbage collected.

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• Kirill Member

  June 2012

  Yes, I know. But the texture is only object in the program.
  Maybe GC will release the object later, but I need guaranteed disposal.
  
  

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• techdojo Guru

  June 2012

  There can be a delay with the GC - sometimes resources don't get free'd straight away if there are multiple dependencies, the way to prove it is to load in the texture, list the about of memory used, then set up an EnterFrame listener and continually call the GC and print the results.
  
  "It's not unusual" :-\" to see the memory total fluctuate around a value and then settle down - it depends on what else Lua is doing at the time.
  
  (sneaky Tom Jones ref with the smiley )

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• atilim Maintainer

  June 2012 edited June 2012

  Also I prefer to collect twice as:

  collectgarbage("collect") collectgarbage("collect")

  Usually a single garbagecollect() doesn't collect all the unreachable objects.

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