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Re: Re[2]: win32lib v0.57.4 released

• Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> May 12, 2002
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Parslow (PatRat)" <tom at almostobsolete.net>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: Re[2]: win32lib v0.57.4 released


>
> > Thomas Parslow (PatRat) wrote:
> >> > - "by Thomas Parslow". GDI resource leak using wPuts and queryFont
> >> > removed.
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> This bug still seems to be present, applying the fix I posted before
> >> still works though...
> >>
> >>
http://www.rapideuphoria.com/cgi-bin/esearch.exu?fromMonth=4&fromYear=7&toMo
nth=4&toYear=7&postedBy=thomas+parslow&keywords=queryFont+wPuts
> >>
> >>
> > That's weird Thomas. I tested it and got no resource leakage. Maybe my
> > testing process is flawed. How exactly are you seeing the resource
> > leakage?
> > As for your fix, yes it worked  but I needed a more generic way of doing
> > it, so I adapted your code to catch all font leaks, now and in the
> > future. (Or so I thought).
> > -----------
> > Derek.
>
> Hi,
>
> I've attached a test program which demonstrates the problem (using
> wPuts, it's exactly the same with queryFont). I'm noticing it by
> watching the Task Manager (set to show GDI object usage).
>
> I'm using windows XP here so maybe that would explain the difference
> if you still don't see the problem...
>

Thanks Thomas,
this is the same problem as with drawRectangle() leak. Both wPuts() and
queryFont() assumed they were being run inside a Paint event handler. I've
fixed now so they don't always assume that.
----------
Derek.