Adobe AIR Development

[tensioncore]

Okay, so with my app, I'm able to update the htmlText values of TextFields as the app is being used, and I update an image that is placed on the stage, however I don't exactly know if its just a new image being placed over top over and over again....

..so is there a way I can check how many instances of my image there are after running a few tests in my app (that would have produced a new version of the image a few times)

[shawnblais]

You could do something like this, inside your container:

for(var i:int = 0; i < numChildren; i++){

trace(getChildAt(i));

}

Better to just go look at your code and make sure you're using the same image instance, don't create a new one each time.

[jjackson]

You could profile it.

[jtegen]

Specifically for images, try:

var display_obj : DisplayObject;
var i           : int;

for( i=0; i < this.numChildren; i++ )
{
  display_obj = this.getChildAt( i );
  if( display_obj is Image )
  {
    // is image
  }
} 

[shawnblais]

"this."? We're not in javascript here

Kidding... just been doing lots of JS lately, and it's nice to not have to do that **bleep** in AS3 ..

[jtegen]

'this' predates JS many years (early C++) and is good OO practice.  But we can all code the way that is most comfortable.