Re: [Boa Constr] Icons get lost

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

Hello Patrick,

----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick K. O'Brien" <po...@or...>
To: "Boa Constructor Users" <boa...@li...>
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 11:43 PM
Subject: RE: [Boa Constr] Icons get lost


> Did you mean to say ImageStore.py (as opposed to ImageSource.py)? I'm
> working with 0.0.5, btw, not the CVS version.

Argh, I did indeed intend to say ImageStore.py.
Thanks for clearing it up.

Riaan

>
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> Patrick K. O'Brien
> Orbtech
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>
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Riaan
> Booysen
> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 7:07 AM
> To: Sasa Zivkov; boa...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Boa Constr] Icons get lost
>
> 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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