Re: [GD-Windows] Nasty GUI bug

[Mickael P. <mpo...@ed...>]

> Pierre Terdiman <p.t...@wa...> wrote:
>
> > I didn't say that, but maybe that was unclear. I'm running W98 but
> > the bug *does* indeed occur on other machines, e.g. with W2K.
>
> The only way I have ever managed to corrupt the Win2K GUI was by creating
> graphics resources and not deleting them: bitmaps, DCs, fonts, etc. The
last
> time I had this was because I was creating a new bitmap every time the
> window was resized / redrawn, but not freeing the previous bitmap
properly.

I second that.

This kind of behavior is generaly not memory related, but "resource"
related. You can kill a windows 98 simply by doing a loop that call
"CreateWindow" repetetively.

    Mickael Pointier