MemoryError

Package	flash.errors
Class	public dynamic class MemoryError
Inheritance	MemoryError Error Object

Language Version:

ActionScript 3.0

Runtime Versions:

AIR 1.0, Flash Player 9, Flash Lite 4

The MemoryError exception is thrown when a memory allocation request fails.

On a desktop machine, memory allocation failures are rare unless an allocation request is extremely large. For example, a 32-bit Windows program can access only 2GB of address space, so a request for 10 billion bytes is impossible.

By default, Flash Player does not impose a limit on how much memory an ActionScript program can allocate.

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Public Properties

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	Property		Defined By
		constructor : Object A reference to the class object or constructor function for a given object instance.	Object
		errorID : int [read-only] Contains the reference number associated with the specific error message.	Error
		message : String Contains the message associated with the Error object.	Error
		name : String Contains the name of the Error object.	Error

Public Methods

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	Method		Defined By
		MemoryError(message:String = "") Creates a new MemoryError object.	MemoryError
		getStackTrace():String Returns the call stack for an error at the time of the error's construction as a string.	Error
		hasOwnProperty(name:String):Boolean Indicates whether an object has a specified property defined.	Object
		isPrototypeOf(theClass:Object):Boolean Indicates whether an instance of the Object class is in the prototype chain of the object specified as the parameter.	Object
		propertyIsEnumerable(name:String):Boolean Indicates whether the specified property exists and is enumerable.	Object
		setPropertyIsEnumerable(name:String, isEnum:Boolean = true):void Sets the availability of a dynamic property for loop operations.	Object
		toLocaleString():String Returns the string representation of this object, formatted according to locale-specific conventions.	Object
		toString():String [override] Returns the string "Error" by default or the value contained in the Error.message property, if defined.	Error
		valueOf():Object Returns the primitive value of the specified object.	Object

Constructor Detail

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Constructor

public function MemoryError(message:String = "")

Language Version:

ActionScript 3.0

Runtime Versions:

AIR 1.0, Flash Player 9

Creates a new MemoryError object.

Parameters

message:String (default = "") — A string associated with the error object.

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MemoryErrorExample.as

The following example shows one method of generating a MemoryError.

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package {
    import flash.display.Sprite;
    import flash.errors.MemoryError;
    import flash.utils.setInterval;
       
    public class MemoryErrorExample extends Sprite {
        private var crashingStr:String;
        private var intervalId:Number;
           
        public function MemoryErrorExample() {
            crashingStr = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";
            intervalId = setInterval(exhaustMemory, 50);
        }
           
        public function exhaustMemory():void {            
            try {
                crashingStr += crashingStr;
            }
            catch(e:MemoryError) {
                trace(e);
            }
        }
    }
}

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