Re: [NTLK] An interesting observation about Avi's Backdrop

From: Dan (dan_at_dbdigitalweb.com)
Date: Mon Aug 30 2004 - 19:13:28 PDT


> The weirdness involves the heap. It seems that when I select an
> image which gives me the "The image you have selected is large" popup,
> I'm left with 112k of heap free. But if I select a smaller image
> which doesn't give me the popup warning, my heap is all of 87k. I
> find that very odd indeed. Does anyone (Avi himself, or perhaps the
> man who took over development) know why this is? Methinks it'd be the
> other way around, or at least if it's a known quirk, Avi's Backdrop
> could be made to take up less heap overall?

Did you try taping the heap indicator to do "garbage collection"? It
might be that it did not "flush" the old image out of the heap yet fully.

-Dan

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