Jonathan Beebe

After releasing Cavern Drake, I was disappointed (and embarrassed) to find out just how many people were experiencing crashes.

Not too long after the game went live, coincidentally, user samlotti posted a reply at the Code Exchange pointing out a major memory leak issue with the destroy() function of my BeebeGames Class (which Cavern Drake uses). After some searching, I found the same issue with the timers as well.

Thankfully, the fix was easy and as a result, Cavern Drake is a lot more stable (I just submitted a 1.0.1 update today) and there is a new version of the BeebeGames class for you to download!

If you have a previous version, this is ESSENTIAL… and don’t worry, it won’t break any of your code. I try to structure all of these updates so that any existing code that calls for the BeebeGames class doesn’t get broken. Just replace the beebegames.lua file with the new one and you’re good to go!

Here is a summary of the changes/fixes:

Fixed major memory leak issues in regards to the destroy() function for objects and cancel() for timers. Also, randomTable functions have been deprecated because after extensive testing, localizing math.random actually works A LOT faster than using pregenerated random tables.

Enjoy.

And as a side note, I’m so glad I decided to open-source the class and share with other developers (or I might have never found this issue!). Special thanks to samlotti for the great catch!

Per user request, added event.name and event.count parameters to listeners passed to the performAfterDelay() function.

If you downloaded this class previously, this update is a MUST. It fixes a major bug that pretty much rendered the entire module useless if you used physics. Don’t worry, all of your previous code should work. I try my best to make each update backwards compatible so you’re not having to modify your code as you download new updates.

Here are a few more changes/fixes:

• Better compatibility with Ricardo Rauber’s Director Class. In previous versions, sometimes you’d get errors while changing scenes. This update fixes that.

• Added table to keep track of all objects created with newObject().

• Added a function that allows you to destroy all objects created with newObject() all at once (destroyAllObjects).

I was going to wait until more features were added before releasing version 1.5 (because updates are coming VERY frequently), but after I ran into that big bug I knew I had to release this update right away.

I apologize for any inconvenience that the bug caused anyone in the meantime, but thankfully it’s fixed now.

A very small update that adds an onStart parameter to the doTransition method.

Added functions that deal with time. Here’s a short rundown:

• resetTimeCounter()
• getTimeCounted()
• performAfterDelay()

In case you’re wondering, the performAfterDelay() function is a complete replacement for the existing timer.performWithDelay() function that now supports pausing and resuming!

I plan on publishing a tutorial that covers the new additions sometime today, so stay tuned.

Quick update that fixes a bug where the text size argument in newRetinaText() wasn’t working correctly. No new features added this time around, but the next update should have some.