Memory Leak on export png????

Dave dave at looktowindward.com
Fri Mar 16 14:24:25 EDT 2007


On 16 Mar 2007, at 18:02, Ian Wood wrote:

>
> On 16 Mar 2007, at 17:25, Dave wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Please take a look at the handler copied below. This is an  
>> adaptation of Ian Wood's "export snapshot.rev" stack that can be  
>> downloaded from Rev Online.
>
> Oops.
>
> What I *hadn't* said about the stack is that it was put together as  
> part of a bug-hunting exercise which I haven't yet reported on  
> Bugzilla. :-(
>
> Export snapshot appears not to release RAM once it has been used an  
> unknown number of times. BUT - it's only in the IDE as standalones  
> are fine. This is with 10.4.8, Rev 2.7.4 & 2.8.0.
>
> How did I find this out? Running a soak test on my QTVR to video  
> app, only to come back later and find that a G5 with 4GB RAM was  
> running out of memory...

Ok, thanks for this. I only have 2GB of RAM so it hits the problem  
sooner.

Richard reports that it works ok on his system, - Richard did you set  
the Fill Color of the Graphic to Green? Actually any color seems to  
cause it.

All the Best
Dave





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