Dynamic text box eating too much memory?

programming flash
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Hi,

I have developed an online chat application based in AS3. Users report the chat gets really sluggish after sometime. Days of debug point to the flash movie growing in memory!

The only thing I can think of is the dynamic text field i have in there where chat is displayed. Is there any way to “purge” some old text?

To add text to the dynamic text field i use:

//ChatText is some long html decorated text.

FromText.htmlText += ChatText;
FromText.scrollV = FromText.maxScrollV;

Thanks in advance
Skimo