RE: [Dynapi-Dev] a couple of tools

[Monica K. <mo...@ko...>]

Does anyone know of any debugging tools to use on the mac? 
Anything other than alert boxes would be very helpful :-)
 
Thanks!

-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Melvin [mailto:do...@cr...]
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 2:21 PM
To: dyn...@li...
Subject: [Dynapi-Dev] a couple of tools


I have found the following tools to be indeispensible when working with (and
debuggin) DynAPI
 
(WIN32 - sorry)
 
1) FreeMemPro
http://www.downloads.3bsoftware.com/Downloads/freemem/freemem.html
<http://www.downloads.3bsoftware.com/Downloads/freemem/freemem.html> 
 
    This is a ram 'defragmenter' for Window 32.. the way it works is it
allocates as much ram from windows as it can, which forces windows to swap
unused data from physical ram to swap space.
Then it releases this ram using proper memory management resulting in more
free ram.
It will keep doing this until it gets as close to the specified amount of
free ram as it can.
 
On my Win98 system which has 128 megs of ram, I ask it to free up 128 ,egs
and it gives me
80 to 100 megs free ram.. Which is damned handy when one has been re-loading
the same DynAPI app over and over again.. 
 
It's not a cure for memory leaks but it make development much easier, and
reduces crashes/reboots.
 
2) Taskinfo http://www.iarsn.com/download.html
<http://www.iarsn.com/download.html> 
    This program is for Window 9X and closly resembles the Task manager in
Windows 2000, with a little extra functionality.
 
You can find out how much ram and CPU time each process is using, what files
the process has open and much more.
 
In fact it was because of my constant observation of running processes that
I discovered last week that I had caught a trojan.. :-)
" what in the hell is this Wininit.exe?!? and hey! I've never seen DNETC.exe
before.. "
 
Just a couple of tools to hopefully make your life easier..
 
Later
Doug
 

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