Re: Excessive GDI objects under WIN32

From: Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>
To: Zac Bowling <zac(at)zacbowling(dot)com>
Cc: pgadmin-support(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Excessive GDI objects under WIN32
Date: 2006-02-13 09:17:14
Message-ID: 43F04E9A.4060905@pse-consulting.de
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Zac Bowling wrote:
> This maybe wxWidgets fault but pgadmin sure is using a lot of GDI
> objects. It releases them ok when you close different windows but it
> seems to allocating way more then would seem necessary. I do a lot of
> postgres related development at work and I have to setup pgadmin on a
> lot of slower windows machines, and those GDI objects are very precious
> to me. With only 5 windows open, its possible to run almost completely
> out. Visual Studio is another beast but not as bad as pgadmin with 4
> windows open. Any clue where and when in wxwidgets (I'm more of gtk and
> cocoa developer so I don't know) those GDI objects get allocated and if
> anyone knows if this is related more to wxWidgets (maybe something I
> could rebuild myself with a different backend or something) or the code
> in general?

pgAdmin needs those. If you're short of GDI objects, you must be running
win98 or so.

Regards,
Andreas

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