What is the best approach for dealing with this issue?

I have been advised by a mac expert that the computer should be left running except for extended periods or, as I have been doing, shut down at the end of each day/ Please explain the rationale for your response. Thanks

On mactalk.com.au there was recently a thread on "When did you last shut down your Mac".
A lot of people don't.
Some people (which I think is mostly PC users converted to Mac, or old-timers who live in the past) do shut down daily.
I myself have only shut my computer off when moving it physically, when there's an electrical storm, when I've been going on holidays, or when there's been some installation issue requiring a restart/coldstart. (I'm not counting "Restarts" for new software)
OS X doesn't need to be shut down... though an occasional restart can be good for resetting things like virtual memory, etc.
If you do leave it going, the CRON scripts only run if the computer is awake anyway (at like 3am in the morning), so if you set the computer to "sleep" after a time, then it's no different to shutting down in that regard.
If you don't mind the extra time waiting for a boot up... then it doesn't really matter. If like me you're impatient, then don't shut down.

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Background
     I have created a 12 x 9 random number grid that populates each cell with a corresponding image based on each cell's numeric value. I have also created a shuffle button that randomizes the numbers in the grid. The problem I am running into is getting my button-click event to clear the current images off the grid in order to assign new ones (i.e. deleting the display stack objects in order to place news ones in the same locations).
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package
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import flash.display.DisplayObject;
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import flash.display.Sprite;
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