Re^3: Tk::Image delete method

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Re^4: Tk::Image delete method by jcb (Parson) on Dec 19, 2019 at 00:22 UTC
You may laugh, but I have written a Perl/Tk program (that persists its state on disk) using `Tk::Table` and ended up adding a menu item that does `exec $0` upon user command because I found that it gets strangely slow after some amount of usage. That program is just a small "toy" for my personal use and an exercise in using `Tk`, so restarting it when it gets slow works well enough for me and the "simple hack" was far easier than tracking down exactly what is going wrong.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: Tk::Image delete method by bliako (Abbot) on Dec 19, 2019 at 09:30 UTC
hey i am not Harry Tattle and I am not the (youtube warning-->> ) Central Scrutinizer of memory leaks :))) However, I must note that a few days ago I was gutted when I learned that every android is potentially pwned because of a freeing-memory bug in libpng gloogle was too lax to fix for some time (for obvious-to-me reasons) ... On the serious side, if the exec frees all memory then that's as good as a manual memory deallocation i guess. garbage collection can manifest itself in many forms! :)	[reply]
Re^4: Tk::Image delete method by Anonymous Monk on Dec 18, 2019 at 11:34 UTC
Could it be because you re-load* perl and your script every time via that exec?* Why not? It's simple and does what I want. I'm not getting any help making it work "correctly" therefore I hack until it does what I mean. btw how does user exit such a cycle? Same way it was started, in the console, with ctrl+c. Or is it meant to be a virus? How is it a virus? It's meant to be fun and productive. I have so many images and so little time to enjoy them. I love this program!	[reply]
Re^5: Tk::Image delete method by jcb (Parson) on Dec 19, 2019 at 00:28 UTC
I'm not getting any help making it work "correctly" That is because you should be reading the Tk documentation. There is a steep initial learning curve, but you are already part of the way up that curve.	[reply]
Re^6: Tk::Image delete method by Anonymous Monk on Dec 19, 2019 at 03:20 UTC
>> I'm not getting any help making it work "correctly" > That is because you should be reading the Tk documentation. There is a steep initial learning curve, but you are already part of the way up that curve. I apologize for saying that, because I am in fact getting very generous help from you (jcb) in 11110311 and bliako in 11110301, and thank you both. I will study the documentation on MainLoop, callbacks, and object destruction to try to get this done right. Thanks again!	[reply]
Re^5: Tk::Image delete method by bliako (Abbot) on Dec 18, 2019 at 12:23 UTC
OK	[reply]