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This might be in the wrong forum but oh well.

I use DTMs very often in my scripts and every time the script ends I get a very very long list of all the DTMs I did not free. I honestly have no idea what this means.

I looked through a few scripts and freeing them seems rather simple (1 line actually) but I don't really understand why they need to be freed or what that even means. I'm assuming it has to do with memory conservation..

Could someone explain?

Freeing DTMs (or BMPs or fonts or sockets or anything else) does probably exactly what you're thinking–it removes them from memory.

freeDtm(theDtm);

or

freeBitmap(theBitmap);

is all you need.

Here's how I free mine:

procedure stop(); //hammer time
begin
  writeWarn('*** Terminating script ***');
  if isLoggedIn() then
   writeDebug('Logging out');
  players[currentPlayer].logout();
  writeDebug('Freeing DTMs');
  freeDtm(barDtm);
  freeDtm(necklaceDtm);
  writeWarn('*** Terminated script ***');
end; 

Then just addOnTerminate('stop'); when your script starts.

From: KeepBotting
Freeing DTMs (or BMPs or fonts or sockets or anything else) does probably exactly what you're thinking–it removes them from memory.

freeDtm(theDtm);

or

freeBitmap(theBitmap);

is all you need.

Here's how I free mine:

procedure stop(); //hammer time
begin
  writeWarn('*** Terminating script ***');
  if isLoggedIn() then
   writeDebug('Logging out');
  players[currentPlayer].logout();
  writeDebug('Freeing DTMs');
  freeDtm(barDtm);
  freeDtm(necklaceDtm);
  writeWarn('*** Terminated script ***');
end; 

Then just addOnTerminate('stop'); when your script starts.

Simple enough, thanks.

I was unsure too, thanks Keep!

Or in SRL6 you can actually free all your DTMs at once. The freeDTMs takes a TIntegerArray:

freeDTMs([dtm1, dtm2, dtm3, dtm4]);