Re: Excessive GDI objects under WIN32

Hehe, yah. I'm runny pretty loaded here with VS2005, VS2003, VS6, VMWare, about 30 putty windows open at any time (half disconnected because I'm to lazy to close them), every other ms-sql tool for 2000 and 2005, msn messanger, winamp, itunes, nunit, nant, crusecontrol.net, msdn docs (3 versions 1998, 1999-2005, and 2005s new one), about 30 IE windows and about 30 firefox windows (to compare :-P), dreamweaver, a full blown j2ee server running cold fusion and jsp, and a postgres and SQL Server. Oh and you can't forget I'm running cygwin with the sshd server and the tools in my path, debug symbols for windows (they hurts a tad), and various desktop sharing apps for conferencing. Blah... (I love my job)...

I'm having trouble fixing my paths (because of the version of the platform sdk I'm running) to finish building wxWidgets at the moment and I'm doing this in and out of my daily duties here at work so its going to take me a few days to get this working. I should have something soon though. :-)

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-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Page [mailto:dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk]
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 2:35 AM
To: Zac Bowling; Andreas Pflug
Cc: Zac Bowling; pgadmin-support(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: RE: [pgadmin-support] Excessive GDI objects under WIN32

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgadmin-support-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
> [mailto:pgadmin-support-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Zac Bowling
> Sent: 13 February 2006 22:50
> To: Andreas Pflug
> Cc: Zac Bowling; pgadmin-support(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [pgadmin-support] Excessive GDI objects under WIN32
>
>
> The use of them isn't or not isn't a valid debate, but the over use of
> them is very valid. Anyways, I think I found the problem, and it
> appears to be inheirt to wxWidgets (had to rip it apart to find it).
> Some funny code comments around it as well. I'm going to send the
> patch in soon if I can fix it easily, but there might be a way to fix
> it in pgadmin without having to fix wxWidgets if anyone is interested.
> I'll reply later with more info when I get done and I get my build
> environment is setup correctly.

Yes, we're interested if it's a non-invasive (and appropriate) fix in pgAdmin. I don't entirely disagree with Andreas' POV (I don't ever recall hearing of anyone running out of GDI's running pgAdmin), and I've certainly run it simultaneously with VC++6 and VS 2k3 & 2k5 (at the same time - don't ask!!) without problems, but it doesn't hurt to save resources.

Regards, Dave.