Re: [Dynapi-Dev] Continuing Freeing memory

[Doug M. <do...@cr...>]

> > "Note that delete affects only property values, not objects
> > referred to by those
> > properties"
>
> > >From this can we establish that we cannot rely on delete to
> > free memory reliably ???
> > Does this also mean that we'd have to iterate through
> > sub-objects deleting them? Perhaps
> > some kind of destroy() method ???
>
> hmm, it would then be possible to atleast delete all objects created
within
> the DynLayer (simple for loop can be used)  problematic thing are all
> objects with objects them selves..
>
> the deletefromparent method could do this for us, take care of deletion of
> all objects referred to. I'll see if I can come up with anything.. and if
it
> actually frees any memory at all.

a recursive funtion maybe?
'psudo code'

function delete_children(obj){

    for each child in obj.children[] {
        delete_children(child)
    }
    delete obj
}

this would delete all children of all children of all children.. ect


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