>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.


I remember George Goley saying that each form consummed about 1MB back in '95. So what you're seeing seems to match. Sorry about that...