[Gambas-user] Memory leak...

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 07/01/2014 11:45, Wolfgang a écrit :
> Hello all,
>
> I am using Gambas 3.5.1 on a Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS system with 2Gb of RAM.
>
> I made a short example to show my problem. Not a very useful code, but
> it shows my problem!
>
> In the form I habe a Button called "ButtonStart" and a Picturebox1.
>
> Here is the code:
>
> Public Img As New Image
>
> Public Sub ButtonStart_Click()
>      Img.Clear
>      Img = Image.Load("data/img.png")
>      PictureBox1.Picture = Img.picture
> End
>
> Every time I click the button an image is loaded (Size is app. 465kB)
> and it is shown in the Picturebox1.
> That is working fine, but for this image of 465Kb Gambas needs app. 1.3Mb.
> I could easily live with that, but when I click again I could get nuts:
>
> Img.clear "Clears the image". That should implement that the memory in
> no longer allocated and released! But it does not work as I expect. (??)
>
> And thus the memory is very soon gone and the program crashes!
>
>
> How can I release the memory???
>
> I tired this problem with "Picture" instead of "Image". Even
> Picture.flush brought the same results.
>
> Of course I have used Google already. What I found was that the problem
> is/was known and solved.
>
> What am I doing wrong??????
>
> Thank you for reading!
>
> Wolfgang
>

Please send your project even if it is obvious.

Thanks.


-- 
Benoît Minisini