Re: [Boa Constr] Icons get lost

[Riaan B. <riaan@e.co.za>]

Hi Sasa,

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sasa Zivkov" <sa...@sp...>
To: <boa...@li...>
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 6:21 PM
Subject: [Boa Constr] Icons get lost


> Hi,
>
> I just have tried Boa Constructor... looks quite impressive!
>
> What happens to me is that after some period of time all icons in toolbars
> just disappear.
>
> I am using the latest version (extracted today from CVS).
> Platfrom: win98, python 2.1

This is a resource problem.

The first big bug is that you are running win98 instead of an OS (like NT or
2000) ;)

wxPython does not release all the GDI objects it uses (mainly bitmaps). For
normal wxPython applications this isn't really a problem, but Boa uses many
bitmaps and widgets.

In ImageSource.py change
            return wx.wxBitmap(filename, wx.wxBITMAP_TYPE_BMP)
to
            return wx.wxImage(filename,
wx.wxBITMAP_TYPE_BMP).ConvertToBitmap()

and similarly for .jpg images.

This uses less resources. The only other suggestion is to have as few other
applications open as possible when running Boa.

Riaan

>
> -- Sasa
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