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2. Re: Win32Lib resource leak FIX

• Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Jun 16, 2002
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Thanks Andy,
this is one of the resource leaks! I've amended deleteObject to delete
whatever object was passed to it.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Drummond" <kestrelandy at xalt.co.uk>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: Win32Lib resource leak FIX


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> I have had huge resource leak problems with two routines specially,
> setWindowBackColor() and setText().
> I have found that though setWindowBackColor calls deleteObject() to
> delete the previous brush, if you look at deleteObject() documentation
> it does say the object MUST have been tracked with trackObject().
> ...
> so I added trackObject() to setWindowBackColor() routine after it had
> gotten a new brush, and hey presto! the resource leak stopped. The
> brush object was being deleted properly.
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> I notice there are other deleteObject() calls in Win32Lib which do not
> "seem" to have trackObject() call associated - so maybe this is a/the
> cause of some resource leak troubles other people have been having.
> Maybe.
>
> Andy Drummond.
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