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josh
josh

Reputation: 379

Can a Flash component check its own use count?

Is there any way for a Flash component (or an Actionscript class linked to a MovieClip in general) to check or return its own use count? I am interested in answers for both AS2 and AS3.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 220

Answers (2)

Florian Salihovic
Florian Salihovic

Reputation: 3961

(ActionScript 3 only) Another possibility would be, using a Dictionary with weak referenced keys to keep track of the referenced/retained objects at runtime. By checking which instance is in the dictionary, you get a rough idea, what's going. But that is a nondeterministic approach, because you never know, when the the garbage collection is running.

Another idea would be an ObjectPool. This could be implemented rudimentary in a couple of minutes, but needed to be used consequently throughout the whole application.

Upvotes: 0

shaunhusain
shaunhusain

Reputation: 19748

I don't think there's anything already built in but you can easily achieve this with a static var like:

public class MyClass
{
    private static var classCreationCount:int = 0;
    public function MyClass()
    {
        classCreationCount++;
    }
    public static function getClassCreationCount():int
    {
        return classCreationCount;
    }
}

Upvotes: 3

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