Re: tracking down win32 GDI object leaks in GTK

[Tim Evans <t evans aranz com>]

Tim Evans wrote:

> Tor Lillqvist wrote:
>
> > Tim Evans writes:
> > > Does anyone have any experience finding and fixing this sort of bug?
> > > This is causing problems in a product that we are supposed to be
> > > shipping soon, so I need to fix this.
> >
> > BoundsChecker
> > (http://www.compuware.com/products/devpartner/bounds.htm) is
> > supposedly good at tracking resource leaks. Don't know of any Free
> > ones.
>
> Actually, I just found one attached to this article:
>     http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/03/01/GDILeaks/default.aspx
>
> I downloaded and compiled GdiUsage.exe with VC6 and it showed by that 
> there are bitmaps leaking and which bitmaps they are (attached).  I 
> can't see that I will have much trouble finding the leak now.

I found the problem.  It was in gdk/win32/gdk_pointer_grab where it 
wasn't calling DestroyCursor.  I have added the patch to bugzilla.

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Tim Evans
Applied Research Associates NZ
http://www.aranz.com/