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I managed to fix my previous problems with an IFrame - you know me well!

Because i use transitions between states i needed a timer to wait and fire a complete event once the transition had completed, which is based on time also. Peter this example was very easy to modify and works perfectly.

You are the man Peter, thanks for saving us newbies and getting us there quicker.

Faith restored.

Thx for your prompt response!

This time i’m not prudent engough. You are right. It’s not the timer’s fault, although i can reproduce the same issue again and again.

After several experiments, i guess the totalMemory might be the total amount of memory used by all Flash Player instances in the current browser process.

Thx again~!

Yours sincerely, Galahady.

Unfortunately I cannot reproduce the issue.
Using the following code my total memory jumped from 5152768 to 5169152, where it stayed fairly steady:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" creationComplete="init();">

    <mx:Script>
        <![CDATA[
            private var timer:Timer;

            private function init():void {
                timer = new Timer(1000);
                timer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, timer_timer);
                timer.start();
            }

            private function timer_timer(evt:TimerEvent):void {
                lblTotalMemory.text = new Date().toTimeString() + ": " + String(System.totalMemory);
            }
        ]]>
    </mx:Script>

    <mx:Label id="lblTotalMemory" />

</mx:Application>

I’m not 100% certain if the totalMemory property returns the amount of memory (in bytes) used by the *current* Flash Player instance for the specific Flex application, or if it returns the amount of memory used by *all current* Flash Player instances. Meaning, your numbers may not be what you expect if you have other Flash Player instances running in the background which may be doing animations or calculations or serving advertisements or whatever.

Peter

First, let me thank you with all my heart for your great blog! it really helps me a lot, and makes my programming in flex become a joyful experience. :)

I have a question about the memory usage of the Timer control. When i create
a time with the following code snippet, i can see the total memory used by the
flay payer going up and up, steadily, at the speed of 30K~10K per second.

what’s wrong? did i make something wrong or it is a bug of flex?

thx in advance.

regards
Galahady

p.s:

private var timer:Timer;

private function init():void {
    timer = new Timer(1000);
    timer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, timer_timer);
    timer.start();
}

private function timer_timer(evt:TimerEvent):void {
    lblTotalMemory.text = String(System.totalMemory);
}

happy 元宵节(sweet dumplings made of glutinous rice flour, chinese festival).
thanks for your all examples, they are very good. And i can learn a lot in your website
best wishes to you. :)

dormouse