How Can I increase memory used by director?

Question

Hi
I have a tool, written in director, that imports all
imagefiles from a
folder and its subfolders into director cast
It worked since years without any problem
But now I have following problem - if the amount of files is
big enough,
director is out of memory, can not create any new member more
I do it like this
repeat with i=1 to cFileList
cFile=cFileList
mem = new(#image, myCast)
mem.importFileInto(cFile, [#trimWhiteSpace:FALSE,
#remapImageToStage:FALSE])
mem.name=cFile
end repeat
At some moment command
mem = new(#image, myCast)
fails, it can happen on 500-th file in the list, or an 570-th
or on some
other point. So the problem is not in some definite file, but
in memory. How
can I avoid this problem? Can I purge the memory, used by the
program till
that moment or is there any other way do to it?
Any help will be appreciated

Answer 1

Look up save castlib. put this in your loop and and maybe try
i mod 10 so it
only saves every 10 times. This should pull the images from
ram to disk, and
sort of purge the memory for you.
Timm
"Jorg Mann" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> I have a tool, written in director, that imports all
imagefiles from a
> folder and its subfolders into director cast
> It worked since years without any problem
> But now I have following problem - if the amount of
files is big enough,
> director is out of memory, can not create any new member
more
>
> I do it like this
>
> repeat with i=1 to cFileList
> cFile=cFileList
> mem = new(#image, myCast)
> mem.importFileInto(cFile, [#trimWhiteSpace:FALSE,
> #remapImageToStage:FALSE])
> mem.name=cFile
> end repeat
>
> At some moment command
> mem = new(#image, myCast)
> fails, it can happen on 500-th file in the list, or an
570-th or on some
> other point. So the problem is not in some definite
file, but in memory.
> How
> can I avoid this problem? Can I purge the memory, used
by the program till
> that moment or is there any other way do to it?
>
> Any help will be appreciated
>
>