This doesn't seem to have any effect on the memory leak, but I
noticed your images folder is quite large when I was looking around
the bundle. I'm not sure if anyone has talked about this before, so
sorry if I'm being repetitive, but it was pretty useful when I found
out about it.
At least from what I gather, most image programs don't seem to get
the maximum compression out of png's that is possible, and Photoshop
(which I'm guessing you used) seems to be one of the worst
offenders. So I use a terminal utility called PNGCrush that really
helps out with compressing pngs both for my widgets and my website.
I posted some info about it on my site back in the day as well:
http://www.donkeyentertainment.com/software/news.php?post=2
I tried compressing your image folder using that utility, and it went
from 2.9 MB to 272 KB. Normally you don't get that kind of reduction
in file size... I'm guessing it's mostly because Photoshop is really
bad at compressing png's. The zipped size also went from like 690KB
to 160KB.
And since it took me a really long time to figure out how to get
PNGCrush installed because I'm stupid with anything that doesn't have
a GUI, here's an overview that may make it easier:
The easiest way I've found is to install PNGCrush using DarwinPorts.
First install DarwinPorts (http://darwinports.com/) if you don't
already have it. After that, go into terminal, and type:
sudo port install pngcrush
You'll be prompted for your password, and after that, it will
install. You also need to be connected to the internet for it to
work. Once that happens, navigate to the folder with your png's in
terminal and type:
pngcrush -rem gAMA -rem cHRM -rem iCCP -rem sRGB -d exp *.png
That will go through all the png's, get rid of a bunch of stupid
metadata, compress them, and put the results in a folder named exp.
The utility has a bunch more options, and I think there's
documentation on their Sourceforge site, but that seems to work well
for me, and it removes problems with the color being different across
multiple computers. There's also a drag and drop app called
PNGCrusher (http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/17768)... (drop the
png's onto the application icon to use it), but as far as I know it
just compresses and doesn't remove the gamma metadata, so you still
run into the color problems.
I found that saving images as .psd's, opening them in Preview and
saving them as .png's there, and then running the PNGCrush commands
seems to result in the best color, or at least the color is exactly
the same as it looks in the document you're editing. Photoshop kept
making my images lighter, and it was really annoying. I never tried
running the PNGCrush command on the Photoshop-exported png's though,
which would have removed the gAMA tag, and may have resolved it. I'm
also running my Apple display at a gamma of 2.1, instead of the
native 1.8, which could have been the problem (or at least let me
notice the problem).
Anyways, hope that helps.
Mike
On Jan 8, 2007, at 10:25 AM, Johnny Storm wrote:
> The current version can be found here:
>
> http://www.icomicsonsale.com/lib/download.php?v=1.3
>
> As I watch the Activity monitor the memory usage went from 200mb to
> 575mb and counting (real memory)...
>
> There is an additional version which I can email individually upon
> request, I don't want to put the link up because its not ready for
> release, and all of the mailing list threads are archived online where
> google can find it.
>
> wow memory requirements are still rising.
>
> Thanks
>
> -js
>
> On 1/8/07, Nelson Darkwah Oppong <email@hidden> wrote:
>> Maybe you can upload some code, or even better the whole widget, so I
>> (we) can take a look at it and test it on our machines?!
>>
>> Nelson
>>
>>
>> > Technically all the functions of my widget are user-initiated,
>> so when
>> > hidden my widget shouldn't be doing anything, that I am aware
>> of, but
>> > if I open the activity monitor the memory usage kept going up
>> and up.
>> > I also noticed a slow down when I had the widget open.
>> >
>> > At this point right now my widget is using 418.45 MB of Real Memory
>> > and 884.88 MB of virtual memory.
>> >
>> > On 1/8/07, Nelson Darkwah Oppong <email@hidden> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > Previously there was a discussion on Widget memory usage, I was
>> >> > curious if that ever got resolved.
>> >> >
>> >> > I noticed that my widget's memory usage has been increasing
>> >> > exponentially even when the Dashboard is in the background.
>> >> >
>> >> > When the Dashboard is in the background is it technically idle?
>> >>
>> >> I am not a pro, but I think, it isn't idle, because there are the
>> >> onhide and onshow functions, some months ago I read that the
>> deloper
>> >> should use them to decrease the update time when the widget is
>> >> hidden. I think my FTP widget works when hidden, too.
>> >>
>> >> Nelson
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>>
>>
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