Re: Problem with image size

On Nov 30, 2004, at 5:10 AM, Nicolas Sanchez wrote:

> Hello,
>
> My problem is very simple, but I have no simple solution.
>
> I load a big image, I resizes it but no memory is freed.
>
> I do this :
>
> NSImage *img = [[NSImage alloc] initWithContentsOfFile: 
> @"monImage.jpg"];
> [img setScalesWhenResized: YES];
> [img setSize: NSMakeSize(100, 100)];
>
> Here the memory is not freed, somebody has a solution ?
>

setSize sets the size of the cached image (the screen representation), 
not the size of the original image data. Even then, setting the size 
only invalidates the cache - it's possible that some of the memory for 
any system resources that have been used stays around after this 
happens.