Re: Preventing memory and resource leaks with GDI Objects ???
Yeah, that's it... Lots of time people forget to call that. I turn on the
GDI Objects column in Task Manager so I can watch what my program is doing.
Tom
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You will have to manage the resources somehow and someplace, but I don't
think it matters how or where. I think you get like 5000 GDI resources
before they run out and I think that number is shared among programs.
Still converting them is no worse that destroying and recreating them,
but you'll have to destroy them ultimately at some point, or, if the
number is not to arduous you could let them get recovered when the
program exits (but I'm not a big fan of that behavior).
Tom
The main thing that I want to do is to manually free any memory or
resources that the CBitmap object is using. I don't know what resources
it is using, and I don't know how to free them.
I think that I got it: Simply call the inherited member DeleteObject().
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I am have built a general purpose bitmap/image handling class and want
to add TextOut() capability to this class. To do this I must convert
some of my GDI local function variables into GDI object member
variables. This means that I must be able to re-use several GDI
objects, instead of constructing them and destroying them after a
single use.
What issues are raised with resource and memory leaks by using CDC and
CBitmap objects? How are these issues mitigated?
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