Unstability of Codea when reading a Multi-page pdf file.

Questions
1

I have ben using some 50 image files (png) as sprites. I want to put those images together into one pdf file and get them with “readImage()” command by specifying corresponding page. Since the size of individual files are slightly different, I wrte "myImage = readImage( Dropbox:fileName, _ , _ , pageNumber), and sprite(myImage, x, y, width) "
It worked and I could see the image, however, Codea crashed right after the action.
I get the same results when I specify width and height in readImage() command.

Is there any tips to stabilize for multi page pdf reading? Should the size of each page the same?

2

Try adding collectgarbage() in the routine. It recovers unused memory each time it’s called. Running out of memory might be the cause of the crash.

3

Thank you for your prompt suggestion.
Actually, I placed the readImage() command in the draw routine, so that it makes too many access to the memory.
By putting a flag to limit access to memory, it become stable. I learned I must be careful about handring the draw routine archtecture of Codea.
But I also learned that collectgarbage() might be a nice tip to overcome future crash problem.