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Memory management

These terms are useful for determining memory requirements and controlling when the movie loads and unloads cast members.

Use the on idle event handler for Lingo that runs when the movie is idle.

 
Idle loading

Use these terms to control idle loading:

cancelIdleLoad

idleLoadPeriod

finishIdleLoad

idleLoadTag

idleHandlerPeriod

idleReadChunkSize

idleLoadDone()

netThrottleTicks


 
Preloading and querying media

Use these terms to load media into memory and check whether media is available:

frameReady()

preloadNetThing()

loaded

preLoadMember

mediaReady

preLoadMovie

preLoad (command)

preLoadRAM

preLoad (cast member property)

purgePriority

preLoadBuffer()

unLoad

preLoadEventAbort

unLoadMember

preLoadMode

unloadMovie


 
Available memory

Use these terms to check how much memory is available:

freeBlock()

movieFileFreeSize

freeBytes()

movieFileSize

memorySize


 
Memory requirements

Use ramNeeded() and size to determine how much memory required for a cast member or a range of frames.