Calvin,

*ASSUMING* that you are talking VFP 5 or later, why does RAM consumption for a form really bother you?

RAM is cheap now, if that is the reason. EXE size should not really be an issue, since its overhead would be faced once, at startup only.

I am trying to say that there is a very good chance that you are worrying about the wrong thing and, if worry is your bag, you should probably find something else to worry about.

Cheers,

Jim N


>I want to load some of my mission critical forms on app startup and then show them when they are needed. I tried this on 1 form but it appears that it consumes about 1 meg of ram. This does not seem reasonable. Is there a way to accurately determine the amount of memory that a form uses when it is loaded this way: do form myform noshow? Is there a better way to do this?
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>Delphi by default does something like this with all of its forms when the app runs. This really gives the application a lot of snap.