Re: NewEra 3 Memory leak?

Hi Renee and Mark, I have not tried it but try this: Call a function in the wif of the window to open. Have this function do all the open, instantiation, etc. Then check the memory after the window is closed to see if the memory is recovered. NE prior to 2.0 had a memory leak when a window was open in an event such as the activate event of a button. If the window's reference pointer from the instantiation was local, the memory was not freed after the event. The workaround we used when I was at AT&T was to do all the other window's work in it's own wif. While at Menlo Park during Beta of NE 2.0 we (AT&T) showed the programmer the bug and he fixed it in a matter of minutes. This bug may have come have come alive. This method also removed all those those nasty INCLUDEs. It's a much cleaner way of organizing your code. Paige At 12:30 PM 10/24/97 GMT, you wrote: }> From: bennettp }> To: informix-list }> Subject: NewEra 3 Memory leak? }> Date: Friday, 24 October 1997 1:44 }> }> <<File Attachment: NEWERA3M.TXT>> }> Has anyone experienced a memory leak in a NE3 app? }> }> We don't use the AFCL. }> We run on Win 95 }> }> I find that upon opening & closing a window repetitively with alot of }> objects on it (eg a grid form with 30 columns) the resources available }(in }> control panel - system - performance tab) slowly leaks away until the }font }> gets large & the program crashes. }> }> It seems that the destructor function is not called. }> The window is opened from the activate handler of a button - and the }> reference is also local to that handler.... }> }> Anyone? }> }> }We have the same problem here with NewEra 3.1 and Windows95. }It's been reported to Informix and has been accepted as an official bug. } }The problem is that the window take more GDI memory than it used to do in }NewEra 2.2 and it doesn't give it back. If you close and open the window }again }it takes more GDI memory (which is only 64K). After opening 6 or 7 windows }the }font get larger, the picturebuttons become white and then raises a fatal }exception. } }Greetings, } }Rene Doempke and Mark Stuurman }Distel Software BV } } Paige Miller Consulting Project Leader Voice: (770) 206-5340, FAX: (770) 395-2337 Enterprise Consulting Services Informix Software, Inc. -- Atlanta, GA USA