[yuvalgeva]

hi,
I'm a game developer and i face with some image drawing and heap limitation issues: specially on series 40

now i have a character which has 6 sprites (each for a different action - stand, run, hit_up...) . in the constructor i'm loading all the 6 sprites into bytes array, and in runtime i create the relevant Image object and paint the relevant frame using clipping.

I want to try using nokia native methods and to avoid the creating of an Image object each time of changing action (we notice a memory leak in 7650 with the Image objects).
my problem is that i want to keep all the sprite short array (using getPixels) in the heap so the drawing will be smooth, but i don't have enough memory. i also tries to put all the sprites images into 1 image and by that to reduce the jar file (i'm fighting every Byte...), but unfortunately i can't create the Image and get the pixels from it without crashing the heap.

any suggestion or tips ???

cheers,
Yuval

[mrmop]

I have been told that creating and then disposing of objects on Nokia phones is a bad idea as there is no garbage compactor, which causes memory to become highly fragmented. You may be better of creating the Image object once in the constructor and then re-using it.