Where is the memorial signal event?

speeder_kidoteca

Both iOS and Android has a event that they can pass to applications that warns the application that it is running out of memory.

How I trap this event with Gideros?

atilim

When iOS and Android dispatch this event, Gideros catches it and calls collectgarbage() automatically.

If you need to catch this event inside Lua, it's possible with a simple plugin. (I can give further information about it).

speeder_kidoteca

@atilim

Corona dispatches a normal event inside Lua for that, and for the project (that I am porting from Corona to Gideros) it is REALLY useful.

My use for it, is unload non-visible scenes and cached stuff.

I leave them loaded to make loading times shorter, but this event allow me to unload them if needed (iPad Retina particularly loved to trigger it, because of its crazy resolution coupled with crap memory)

Also, capturing this event allow some easier debugging of running out of memory.

atilim

@speeder_kidoteca We've implemented Event.MEMORY_WARNING. It'll be available with the next version.

speeder_kidoteca

Thanks atilim!!!