Question

I have as3 class like this

package  {

import Global;
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.events.*;
public class Alert extends MovieClip {

    public function Alert(alertTitle:String, alertText:String, alertButton:String = "OK") {
        alert_title.text = alertTitle;
        alert_text.text = alertText;
        alert_button.button_text.text = alertButton;            
        this.x = Global.stage.stageWidth/2;
        this.y = Global.stage.stageHeight/2;
        Global.stage.addChild(this);
        alert_button.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, Close);
    }

    public function Close(e:MouseEvent){
        this.parent.removeChild(this);
        alert_button.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, Close);
    }

}

}

I use function Close() to remove class itself but i noticed it doesn’t frees memory. Is there any way to remove it completely and free used memory?

Sorry for my bad English.

Answer 1

It’s memory managed, so the objects won’t get freed immediately. After the Garbage collector runs, if nothing is referencing Alert then it will be freed.