>>>Have you ever notice that GDI resources drop everytime you use preview feature of a report with VFP 5.0 ??
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>>>It does so on my PC, and so far the only way I've found to recover GDI resource it's to reboot the machine, quite ennoying when you are developping application.
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>>>The video chip is a Tseng ET4000 with 2 meg RAM workin at a 1024x768x256 colors resolution
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>>>Is there any way of recovering GDI resources without rebooting PC ??? or even better to prevent GDI to drop so badly ( below 15% )
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>>>thanks
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>>>Alain Poupart
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>>Alain,
>>What method are you using to determine the GDI resource, I would like to confirm this.
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>in VFP, Help - About - System Info, that's where I track memory usage before it crash, you can get the same info in the about dialog box in the win explorer window.
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>You know that resource are low when you can no longer save your work in VFP or weird things happens when display has to be refreshed in the development environment ( like Win unable to find font files, bmp etc.. )

Alain,
I tried same, and GDI resources drop 2% at each preview, but are returned afterwards, checking the same way you did. Norton utilities v 2.0 confirms the numbers. I use norton system monitor at all times. This will monitor GDI and other resources. You can set a threshold, and when a particular resource meets the threshold, a message appears, or action can be taken. I am running Win95, 1024x768x256, 2mb ram, Cirrus logic.

Good luck