OpenEuphoria

Huge Memory Hog....

• Posted by Euman <euman at bellsouth.net> Mar 08, 2001
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I wanted to include images in my program, use createDIB then BitBlit
the images to screen, I spent a fort night prepareing this and am
very dissapointed in the memory consumed by this operation.

There are many images I have to use in this program and would like to
compile these into the main .exe also shrouding the user from the images.

I used incbm.e and instead of nameing the images as constant data
I changed these to objects so as to zero the sequence after createDIB
is called.

I used UPX to compress the compiled .exe which resulted in a 190k file,
but when run, the program consumed @50meg of RAM. (highly unexceptable)

I hope that someone would explain why 225k uncompressed included images
would HOG this much RAM.
"I used LoadBitmapfromFile and the memory consumption was @ 1meg RAM
so I know its not my codeing scheme that's the HOG here."

I hoped to share the same palette amongst the images and have designed
them with the same. however, createDIB hasn't a method to
retrieve the initial palette. I think this could shave a few megs
consumption
but, not sure. Derek P said he'd look into this because I failed.

Would David Cuny's resource.e work to include .bmp's with the translator and
if you have a working example how this works, I would appreciate the info.

ANY SUGGESTIONs, PLEASE!

Euman