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Andy YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 25 England	Remove an image from memory? Dec 29th, 2006, 1:08am   Hi, I was just wondering if it is possible to remove image data from memory to load up new data and hence not run out of resources. Thanks Andy
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st33d God Member Offline Posts: 666	Re: Remove an image from memory? Reply #1 - Dec 29th, 2006, 2:14am   myImage = null; Assigning stuff to a value of null generally frees up memory. Java's garbage collector should clean it up for you behind the scenes. You can call System.gc(); to give the garbage collector a kick up the bum, but it's not guaranteed to happen immediately.