Yesterday was a slow day for game development. I had a tricky problem at work that had been delaying my work I put some extra hours into solving.

Scene Cleanup

In our scenes we do not add in sprites directly, except for the LogoScene which we will clean up later. Instead we load components.

Looking over the API and Stackoverflow I believe that UnloadContent is called whenever an object is disposed of, or is removed from the Game.Componenets.

With this in mind and the fact I save all of our components to a dictionary already clean up was rather simple

protected override void UnloadContent()
    {
        foreach (var component in _components)
        {
            component.Value.Dispose();
        }
        base.UnloadContent();
    }

Component Cleanup

Using the same logic I set up a dictionary on components to store all loaded assets.

List<string> _assets = new List<string>();

Then I set up a LoadAssets function to load my spritesheets.

private void LoadAssets(string asset)
    {
        _assets.Add(asset);
        SpriteAtlas.Instance.RegisterSpriteSheet(asset);
    }

When the component is disposed of by the scene then the UnloadContent should run

protected override void UnloadContent()
    {
        foreach (var asset in _assets)
        {
            SpriteAtlas.Instance.DeregisterSpriteSheet(asset);
        }
        base.UnloadContent();
        Game.Components.Remove(this);
    }

That's all for now

Today I should be caught up at work so I should have a larger update for tomorrow and finally get the settings implemented.