Print not releasing system resources

[JaneJantz]

I am running in Win95 and 98. I have the resource meter turned on so that I can watch memory usage. When I issue a print command or preview, the resources go down. When I exit the preview or print, the resouces go back up, but not to where they were prior to the print request. Doing this multiple times depletes my resources. I get a message from windows saying that I have only 10% of my resources left, exit out of some applications to free up memory. Even exiting out of the visual foxpro 5.0 application does not give me back any resources. Is there a setting or something I can do to not deplete the resources while doing multiple print jobs?

 

[dgrewe]

Are you defining anything before the print command (like a window, view, enviroment) and not releasing it after the print command ??

David W. Grewe
Dave@internationalbid.com
ICQ VFP ActiveList #46145644

 

[JaneJantz]

Thanks for answering... no I am not defining anything. This routine simply does a sys(1037) to get the printer from windows and prints a text file from the local hard drive. It is a stand-alone exe.
I have the same problem with a visual application (exe) that just does a simple report form using one table. I can close the application completely and it will not release the system resources after I print.
This is consistent for win 95 and 98. I looked at the way MS WORD uses resources, and it does not release all of them either, but at a much slower rate than VFP.

 

[dgrewe]

Sound like it is a MS Windows problem more then Fox or Word.

David W. Grewe
Dave@internationalbid.com
ICQ VFP ActiveList #46145644

 

[Diederik]

Try calling _fpreset() immediatly after using sys(1073)
(and also after GETPRINTER(), REPORT FORM ..., SET("Printer", ...), SET PRINTER ....)
FE:
sys(1073)
_fpreset()

Diederik Vermeeren
verm1864@exact.nl