Free Used Memory

[ronnyjljr]

Hiya,

I have an application that displays a picture, of any size and types jpg, bmp, gif. Typical OLE readable formats. Anyways I can view them just fine but then when I close the dialog the memory is not freed. How would I go about doing this? I have try to delete the actual picture reference and the dialog reference after closing but the ram still shows that the 1 or 2MBS is still in use. Any help?

-Ron

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[teriviret]

What are you using to see how much memory is still allocated? It may be that you did "free" the memory, but the way Windows applications work, the virtual address space of your application might not shrink back to the size it was before, at least not right away.

How are you loading the pictures you are displaying? Something like a CBitmap selected into a CDC? Make sure you un-select the bitmap from the DC before the dialog box is destroyed. Just call SelectObject() again and re-select the value that was returned when you called SelectObject() the first time.

Are you using an ActiveX control to display the pictures? Make sure you release any interface pointers to the control when the dialog is destroyed.

 

[shetlandbob]

My understand of the way windows works is that the memory is "free'd" for use, but only by the same application. You have to exit the application before it is free for other applications to use.

So unfortunately I dont think there is a way??