The image port is a data port . It will save the last image until you give
it a new image.
If you define a buffer port, it will save the last image until some
connected port get it, then it will become empty.

2009/3/5 <charles [dot] lesire [..] ...>

> Hi all,
>
> I am using the Image object proposed in the Vision toolkit to share an
> image between my own Camera component and my own Display.
> Listing the image addresses during execution, it seems to me that each time
> I set the grabbed image to the port, it destructs the previous image it
> contained to add the new one (resulting in cloning the image instead of
> copying it).
>
> Then during execution, I don't really understand how my image data is
> managed by both components and the data port object.
>
> Any clue on that?
> Have people using the vision toolkit encountered some memory problems?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Charles
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