stopplugin

Hi,

on closing the plugin, the plugin should stop all own handlers, remove all own objects from stage, and removing everything else it has added/created,

Zitat

I'm making a hotspot plugin which will be loaded and unloaded a lot of
time, so I'd like to optimize the performance and really close all the
variable when closing the swf.

it's more imported to remove any handlers/timers,
e.g. when a object is removed, but the handler/timer is still running...

Zitat

Is it necessary to set the global (private var) boolean, array and integer to null (it displays an error) or something else ?

no, normally not,

Zitat

for instance, Klaus, in radar.as you don't do anything with the String
variable pluginpath in stopplugin. Is there any particular reason ?

simple objects(strings too) are automatically free in Flash, when there is no reference to it anymore,
there is no need here to set "pluginpath" to null,

Zitat

Do you have an idea about this error ?

sorry, but without seeing the code of your plugin, no
there are so many reasons possible,

best regards,
Klaus

I

Hi,

sorry about the term "simple object", I just mean "normal" Flash Objects

Zitat

I've another question : If I set "useWeakReference" to true from my listener, do I have to bother about removing event listener if I set "null" to the associated object ?

no, "useWeakReference" just means if you pass a "inner" Function" as Listener, it will be automatically removed,

event listeners itself should be always removed!
here a quote from the Flash docu about it:

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If you no longer need an event listener, remove it by calling removeEventListener(), or memory problems could result. Objects with registered event listeners are not automatically removed from memory because the garbage collector does not remove objects that still have references.

see also here:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AS3LCR/Flash_10.0/flash/events/EventDispatcher.html#addEventListener()

best regards,
Klaus