Re: tracking down win32 GDI object leaks in GTK

[Tim Evans <t evans aranz com>]

Tor Lillqvist wrote:

> Tim Evans writes:
>  > Does anyone have any experience finding and fixing this sort of bug? 
>  > This is causing problems in a product that we are supposed to be 
>  > shipping soon, so I need to fix this.
>
> BoundsChecker
> (http://www.compuware.com/products/devpartner/bounds.htm) is
> supposedly good at tracking resource leaks. Don't know of any Free
> ones.

Actually, I just found one attached to this article:
    http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/03/01/GDILeaks/default.aspx

I downloaded and compiled GdiUsage.exe with VC6 and it showed by that 
there are bitmaps leaking and which bitmaps they are (attached).  I 
can't see that I will have much trouble finding the leak now.

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Tim Evans
Applied Research Associates NZ
http://www.aranz.com/