Save and Restore Screen

[Gilesy]

Hi all
Does anyone know what the limits are (if any) in terms of memory size, for these commands. In XP and 2000 we are getting crashes.
SAVE SCREEN TO memvar
....code....
RESTORE SCREEN FROM memvar

Restore screen crashes with error 9 or error 12. My guess is that there is a limit to the size of this, but I couldn't find any information describing these specifics.

 

[rob444]

save screen and restore screen are just saving and restoring the foxpro screen.
Nothing fancy.
Perhaps you should publish a little more from the code around the "problem area" in order to get more help.

Rob.

 

[rgbean]

A lot depends on the current screen resolution, screen size and the color depth. I frequently get error 43 in FPW (Insufficient Memory).

Are you getting these in FP DOS?

Rick

 

[Gilesy]

Morning guys,
It's FP Windows and the user has a huge resolution, 1280 x 1024, 32 bit colour.
After the SAVE SCREEN it shells out to a dos bat program and restore is activated when that is complete. It's very old code written in 94.
We've told the user to change the screen resolution down and this seems to prevent the error. (Why they want to use such a resolution beats me!)