Similar Components Sharing SWC Library

[Former Member]

Hi

If I have a number of compopnents to be added to Xcelsius and they all share the same underlying swc libraries, I notice that in Xcelsius the RAM usage seems to expand as a function of how many components are used even if none of the components are in the Canvas.

The way things work at the moment, I know that each component swf includes all the required swc files. This increases the size of the xlx's (not really much of a problem) but also the RAM used by Xcelsius.

Anyone know if there a way around this whereby a non-technical user can set a shared library so that they do not have to be included in each xlx?

Also why does the RAM usage increase so much even though the component is not in the Canvas?

Thanks a lot

Mac

[Former Member]

Hi Mac,

Xcelsius loads all of the components (including add-ons) on startup whether they are on the canvas or not, the advantage of this is that there is no delay when you add them to the canvas.

We will add an Enhancement Request so that in future we may look into whether we can change this behavior so that add-ons are loaded on demand as they are added to the canvas instead...

Regards

Matt