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Re: Can't create pixmap [message #14706 is a reply to message #14701]

Mon, 22 March 1999 00:00

davidf
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Registered: September 1996

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Phil Aldis (philaldis@geocities.com) writes:

> I'm fully aware that the message can't create pixmap means that you've
> run out of memory. However this is never a message I get because my NT
> machine seems to be able to cope with using ordinary memory and in
> fact goes into page file space and if it runs out of that, well
> windows doesn't like that.
>
> However, I keep getting it and I could understand that if there was no
> memory left however I'm getting it when I create pixmaps of certain
> sizes. It's in an animation routine that the error occurs. It crashes
> out of the program with 'can't create pixmap'. The size of pixmap is
> 210x230, or something like that. If I create a 200x200 pixmap or
> 500x500 pixmap it's okay but as soon as you get close to the 210x230
> size it gives the previous error message.

I can't duplicate this behavior in IDL 5.2 on a Windows NT 4 machine.
But if you can reliably reproduce it, I'd say it looks like a bug.
Have you contacted RSI?

Cheers,

David

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