| IDL 8.1 Crashes on Windows [message #77863] |
Fri, 30 September 2011 12:13 |
David Fanning
Messages: 11724
Registered: August 2001
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Folks,
I have received an unconfirmed report that one possible
source of IDL 8.1 crashes on Windows computers may be
an inadvertent leak of GDI objects. These Graphics
Device Interface objects are responsible for much
of the menu and graphics drawing on the computer.
And it is apparently quite easy to make an inadvertent
mistake when cleaning these objects up.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc301756.aspx
Windows computers apparently only allow 10,000 of these
objects. If you have more, the machine crashes in a very
hard way, so that the only recourse is to hit the panic
button. You can keep track of how many of these GDI objects
are in use at any particular time with the Task Manager.
(Go to the View->Select Columns menu item and select the
GDI object selection.)
I am told there is patch file available that apparently
solves the problem.
Cheers,
David
--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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