GDI Resource leaks
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<Rant> Damn it all to hell, why can't programmers control their applications resource usage. I just downloaded a highly acclaimed game, tried to run it on my Win98 machine and BOOOOOOMMMMM GDI resource leaks crash it in it's path. Just because you guys all seem to be using W2K or XP that seems to have unlimited resources, doesn't mean you can waste them.:mad: </Rant> --- CPUA 0x5041 Sonork 100.11743 Chicken Little If a man is standing in the middle of the forest speaking and there is no woman around to hear him...is he still wrong?
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<Rant> Damn it all to hell, why can't programmers control their applications resource usage. I just downloaded a highly acclaimed game, tried to run it on my Win98 machine and BOOOOOOMMMMM GDI resource leaks crash it in it's path. Just because you guys all seem to be using W2K or XP that seems to have unlimited resources, doesn't mean you can waste them.:mad: </Rant> --- CPUA 0x5041 Sonork 100.11743 Chicken Little If a man is standing in the middle of the forest speaking and there is no woman around to hear him...is he still wrong?
Couldn't agree more, although why anyone would persist with W98 is beyond me, nevertheless, it's a real problem. I encountered it in my old job, because I developed under W2000, my boss used 98. Thank goodness he did, I had no idea the problem existed, that is, I had no idea that the NT stream plugged GDI leaks, if he had not been running 98, our customers would have told us about the bug, I am sure. I suspect other teams are also unaware and all develop under W2000 simply because it rules. Of course checking on every OS should be part of any shops test regime, but we were not that organised where I used to work..... Christian The tragedy of cyberspace - that so much can travel so far, and yet mean so little. And you don't spend much time with the opposite sex working day and night, unless the pizza delivery person happens to be young, cute, single and female. I can assure you, I've consumed more than a programmer's allotment of pizza, and these conditions have never aligned. - Christopher Duncan - 18/04/2002
