Swf Crash (destroy objects)

[StingRay]

Hi! In my platformer you collect items and shoot enemies.

sometimes, the game stops to work (it happens by destroying objects)

any idea what i can do here?

[oruga]

it's hard to tell. We need more details. Try checking the events that destroy objects. Are they looping? try removing these events to see if the problem persists. In short, debug. or post some file so we can look at it

[StingRay]

it has to do with the creation of objects inside a fastloop. I've found a workaround without using fastloop, BUT:


now it still sometimes hangs (interesting -> not the total app, the user can still walk, but scrolling, enemy walk,... is disabled)

it's like the groups are disabled, but they AREN't - very strange...

[StingRay]

it's:

if there's too much happening at once (collecting items, shooting, jumping,... --> create & destroy objects)

it starts to crash.

if the user takes time, it works

weird....

EDIT: btw, the pc version works fine!

[SoftWarewolf]

if this gets fixed, it might be amazing, i have a really odd bug that happens if my game runs for a long time, i can't pinpoint it, because you have to play for 15minutes or so before it happens.
But what happens is movements are still active, but all the events stop working, and the graphics glitches out. (some areas of the frame will accumulate glitchyness, like a frozen windows window, if that makes any sense)

[nivram]

Almost sounds like a memory leak, or too many objects being created.

Marv

[KLiK-iT]

I was going to say the same thing Nivram said. To many objects. Look at your Debugger and see what's going on.

[Francois]

Stingray, if you send me your application I can have a look at it and see if there is a crash in Flash debugger...

[StingRay]

Hi Francois! Did you have any luck here?

In the meantime i'Ve created a facebook app for the game and got still the problem.

I have to present the game on a fair this weekend and it would give some trouble with the client, i think if the game stops working...


thanks for your time!

[StingRay]

I'm still testing, but i think I figured it out:

AVOID destroying/creating objects in a loop.

it looks like this crashed my app (with deleting the 'loop' it dont crashes till now )