Disposing of Table

[Eivien]

Hi
Could anyone please help me out with this?

I'm creating a linked list within an array to help me implement my pathfinding script, for the array i am using the Table class.
Within my script i need to be able to destroy an instance of the Table class that i have created so that i can start annew.

I have tried using the .dispose method, but it does not seem to work with this class, is there any other way to destroy an instance of an object?

 

[ccoa]

Ruby uses a garbage collector, like Java. You can't explicitly dispose objects like C(++/#)(the dispose method in the RGSS classes probably does some internal cleaning up that is needed). You can mark an object as needing garbage collected by destroying all refrences to it. In this example, setting the Table object equal to a new Table or nil.

You can also ask the garbage collector to run and sweep up all objects needing disposal by calling

GC.start

But that can slow things down while it runs. It's usually better to let the Interpreter decide when to run it.

 

[Eivien]

Thanks, problem solved!

You've just given me an alternate solution, because its a little ineffecient to implement a linked list within an array, when all the items are deleted i wanted to delete the list and start anew.. however i can just set it to Table.new to reset the lot... thanks!

 

[ccoa]

No problem.

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Thank you!