[vtkusers] Delete actor and release memory

[Sebastien Jourdain]

You never deleted the sphere.

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Nicolas Rannou <nicolas.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I would like to delete/remove actors from my rendering window to free
> memory.
> The issue is that the memory usage doesn't decrease after removing/deleting
> the actors.
> From my understanding, both following pseudo-codes should use the same
> amount of memory.
> But,
> The first one uses: 15 Mb for 1000 spheres:
> The second uses: 90 Mb for 1000 spheres:
> How should I proceed in the 2nd case, to get back to the "original" memory
> usage without actor?
> Thanks,
>
> Nicolas
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> 15 Mb
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> //Create a sphere
> vtkSphereSource* sphere = new ...
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> 90 Mb
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> //Create sphere
> vtkSphereSource* sphere = new ...
> // mapper
> vtkMapper* mapper ...
> mapper->SetInput( sphere->GetOutput() )
> // actor
> vtkActor* actor...
> actor->SetMapper(mapper)
> mapper->Delete()
> // Add and remove actor
> renderer->AddActor(actor)
> renderer->RemoveActor(actor)
> // Delete actor
> actor->Delete()
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