Flash Lite Optimization - attachMovie vs Timeline

Question

Give us your opinion about how you define a Flash Lite project for a complex application with many different views.

Do you use : 1) attachMovie with each different views in movie clips in the library unloadMovie to switch to another view ?

2) timeline ... you use gotoAndStop() ? the main problem of this, is when you use createEmptyMovieClip(), created movieclips won't be removed when you gotoAndStop() to another keyframe even if it is separated from the previous one.

I tried solution n°2 Timeline becomes fast overloaded. Moreover, I learn that you need to put many empty frames to let Flash Lite initialize properly ... if you put 1 keyframe for each view from the very beginning of your timeline, your AS code will be buggy.

I'm now going to use solution n°1.

Tell us about your Flash Lite experience and mobile application architecture. Thx !

Answer 1

Why not get flash to do the garbage collection?

1. Create an empty MovieClip on the timeline, manually. This will be your "holder" MC.

2. Using actionscript, attachMovie all your contents into that holder MC.

3. Now you simply gotoAndStop to another frame, to unload all the contents of the holder MC.

4. When you gotoAndStop back to this frame, the holder MC should be empty, so back to step 2.