>>>>>>Is there a way to free some of GDI resources used?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I saw that when I generate a huge number of pages the Application exceed the defined GDI handlers(10000).
>>>>>>This is a payroll statements generation utility and it generates more than 4000 PDFs (using XFRX) and send them by email.
>>>>>>but after 1500th PDF the system crashed :-)
>>>>>>Is there some API function like GetGuiResources() but SETGuiResources() :-))))
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I don't want to do anything with the Windows Registry. I know that there is a way to increase GDI handlers with Registry, but as I said, i don't want to manipulate them.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>TIA
>>>>>
>>>>>Would it be easier just to generate them in batches (maybe 500/batch) and completely close XFRX and any mail handler between batches?
>>>>
>>>>I tried this, but the handlers aren't released.
>>>>I even tried CLEAR RESOURCES :-)
>>>
>>>Does this help to see what is grabbing the GDI handles..?
>>>
>>>http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/gdi_handles.html
>>
>>I used Windows Task Manager to see GDI handlers and saw that WAIT WINDOW at each refresh increases the GDI handlers with 2.
>>I removed it, but Every .Transform() method takes 2 handlers also.
>>And the worst thing is that I don't know how to free these handlers.
>
>Is the Transform call coming from XFRX? If it is, shoot them an email and ask them about it. They may have suggestions or they likely will try to fix (not that that will help immediately).
>
>Are you running this code on a server or what O/S? It might be worth trying from a different O/S in case it handles GDI differently.


O, I forgot to tell you about OS:
Tested on Windows 7, and WIndows 2008 Server R2

Thank you William.
(that is another thing I forgot, to thank you) :-)