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joetesta
Roku Guru
10 years ago

any way to find orphaned objects?

Greetings, I'm stuck on an issue and hoping for some help. When our app launches, it makes an API call and gets data (currently playing programs). At this point hitting home button shows about 30...
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joetesta
Roku Guru
10 years ago
Thanks for your help EnTerr!

I'm trying as you suggested, after stop, when i enter 'bsc' a ton of stuff scrolls by, all sorts of things: roAssociativeArrays, roStrings, roInts, roVideoPlayerEvents
but what does this tell me; can i find what's referencing and clear up all this stuff?

BrightScript Debugger> bsc
                 roGlobal refcnt= 1
        roIntrinsicDouble refcnt= 2
        roIntrinsicDouble refcnt= 1
        roIntrinsicDouble refcnt= 1
        roIntrinsicDouble refcnt= 1
        roIntrinsicDouble refcnt= 1
        roIntrinsicDouble refcnt= 1
        roIntrinsicDouble refcnt= 1
        roIntrinsicDouble refcnt= 2
        roIntrinsicDouble refcnt= 1
        roIntrinsicDouble refcnt= 1
        roIntrinsicDouble refcnt= 1
        roIntrinsicDouble refcnt= 1
        roIntrinsicDouble refcnt= 1
        roIntrinsicDouble refcnt= 1
        roIntrinsicDouble refcnt= 2
        roIntrinsicDouble refcnt= 1
        roIntrinsicDouble refcnt= 1
        roIntrinsicDouble refcnt= 1
        roIntrinsicDouble refcnt= 1
        roIntrinsicDouble refcnt= 1
        roIntrinsicDouble refcnt= 1
       roAssociativeArray refcnt= 2
                 roString refcnt= 1 [foreground]
                 roString refcnt= 1 [EXIT_UNKNOWN]
                 roString refcnt= 1 [homescreen]
                 roString refcnt= 1 [3000]
       roAssociativeArray refcnt= 5
       roAssociativeArray refcnt=24
. etc...


here is the summary;
BrightScript Debugger> bscs
                  roArray: 8094
       roAssociativeArray: 17617
                 roBitmap: 54
                roBoolean: 12
              roByteArray: 1
        roCaptionRenderer: 1
   roCaptionRendererEvent: 57
             roCompositor: 1
               roDateTime: 2573
             roDeviceInfo: 5
             roFilesystem: 1
                   roFont: 8
           roFontRegistry: 1
               roFunction: 20
                 roGlobal: 1
                    roInt: 232
        roIntrinsicDouble: 107
                   roList: 1
            roMessagePort: 1
                 roRegion: 51
                 roScreen: 1
                 roSprite: 57
                 roString: 64806
         roTextureManager: 1
               roTimespan: 19
            roUrlTransfer: 5
            roVideoPlayer: 1
       roVideoPlayerEvent: 139
       Total # components: 93867