About memory leaks…

Posted by Johannes Stein on Oct 6, 2009 in Games, Libraries | 0 comments

There were a few memory leaks in the Elysion Frameworks. Well, “few” is clearly an understatement. Fortunately I found some code from the (old) ElysionSDL library on some backup DVDs and after a couple of days I was finally able to fix all memory leaks in the classes TelSprite and TelTrueTypeFont (and all derived classes like TelButton).

There a few things which are not working as I hoped, for example the VirtualClone procedure just loads the original image file now, because copying from an existing SDL_Surface gives for some reason unknown to me a null pointer.

I marked the Generate procedure as deprecated, it still works now, but in the near future Generate won’t exist any more and that code will most likely be moved to the Draw procedure. The reason is, ElysionKronos doesn’t need Generate and I’m trying to keep the Elysion Frameworks as much compatible to each other as I can.
If you want to try the Elysion Frameworks (it’s still not stable) check out the SVN repository on http://sourceforge.net/projects/elysionsdl/

On another note:
I’ve updated Cavern Defense to the newest ElysionLegacy version and also included a 64-bit Linux build. The Mac OS application is significantly smaller this time. (I inadvertently included debug SDL libraries in the last release.)
The download links have been updated.