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Newcomers DBPro Corner / Cleaning up your mess!?

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ryansobol
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Posted: 20th May 2003 17:50
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How does dark basic pro handle the deallocating of 3D objects, user-defined types, etc. from memory when a game quits? What are the possible memory leaks that a savvy game programmer should check for when his game is about to terminate?

Ryan
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Mike Johnson
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Posted: 21st May 2003 01:28
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DB Pro will clean up after itself when a game quits so there should be no memory leaks.

Mike
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ryansobol
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cool, just want to make sure DBPro is an intuative interpreter with garbage collection. thanx for your help!

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CloseToPerfect
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you must delete all objects, sounds, bitmaps, images, sprites, arrays or you will have memory leaks. try it, load in alot of large images or something and don't delete them run the program over and over and watch windows crash, fun really.
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indi
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my favorite is when all the buttons dissapear and slowly they come back in purdy colours then mr lockup pays you a visit and u have to press mr reset.

http://www.lunarpixel.com

http://www.lunarpixel.com/dt/
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CloseToPerfect
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Ahhh, that's the bonus round.

yes, indi, it's a great game to play isn't it?

but it doesn't compare to the all time windows classic,
Reformat and Reinstall,,, probably the most played windows game of all.
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haXor
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Posted: 22nd May 2003 03:12
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lol

Sup Kids
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ryansobol
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you must delete all objects, sounds, bitmaps, images, sprites, arrays or you will have memory leaks.
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arrays huh... what about user defined types? are those treated as first class objects? meaning you dont have to delete varables of user-defined types like you would for integers, strings, or floats?

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indi
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Posted: 22nd May 2003 19:55
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I use typed arrays
I find its a lot easier to terminate one array thats connected to it
rather than 50 arrays to manage all the data

http://www.lunarpixel.com

http://www.lunarpixel.com/dt/
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