Graphics and visual effects

[Shari]

I often run into the problem where showing a graphic with a visual 
effect produces a white area.  Where part of the graphic shows up 
white and the rest is okay.  Or part of it shows up as diagonal lines 
and the rest is okay.  Or sometimes the whole graphic shows up as 
nothing but diagonal lines during the effect.

It will work sometimes and not others.

I am assuming this is memory related.  As it seems to happen more 
when the program has been running awhile, and I've been in and out of 
several stacks (all with the destroy properties set to true).

I believe that folks with less memory available to them experience 
this as well.

Is there any way to address it?

Many times I close a stack, with all the destroy properties set to 
true, but somehow Metacard still has the stack in memory.  Because 
when I open it again, I get the purge dialog.  I suspect there's a 
relationship, things being stored in memory that I didn't want there, 
and memory running out.

I guess I don't expect an answer, but who knows?  Maybe somebody out 
there found a fix :-)  Or maybe there's a piece of code I need to add 
to better purge the memory during operation.

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