[jira] [Created] (FLEX-34230) StageText skins prevents garbage collection of component with TextInputs and TextAreas

["Alexander Scheibe (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Alexander Scheibe created FLEX-34230:
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             Summary: StageText skins prevents garbage collection of component with TextInputs and TextAreas
                 Key: FLEX-34230
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLEX-34230
             Project: Apache Flex
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: Spark: TextArea, Spark: TextInput
    Affects Versions: Apache Flex 4.12.0
            Reporter: Alexander Scheibe
         Attachments: MobileTextInputGCTest.fxp

In a mobile application with stage text based TextInput and TextArea elements garbage collection of sub components (e.g. a view) will not occur until another component with the same number of text inputs and text areas is added.
I would expect the component to be removed from memory (after the next garbage collection) when it was removed from its parent.

I created a demo app where a window with a text input with a StageTextInputSkin is opened. Each time the window is opened it will show a different number of text inputs (7, 5, 3, 1 and 7 again).  Using a memory profiler (e.g. Flash Builders memory profiler) will show that the instances of the window are kept in memory until the window is opened again with 7 text inputs. 
In our real world application this causes a lot of memory to be wasted.




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