[Bug-gnubg] Windows, all versions -- Hint windows chew up Win98 GDI resources

[Billie Patterson]

There are a number of posts from me about this, but I've
played enough recently to come up with a pattern.

1)  The hint window with the analysis of possible moves
reduces Windows98 GDI resources by 1% in every 8-9 openings
of the window.

2)  The combination of the "warning" window and cube hint
window that appears when you fail to double when you should
reduces GDI resources by 2% every 2-3 openings, and in
addition, gradually wipes out the menu text from the left
side starting with the 'F' in File.

3)  The next reopening of the move hint window restores the
menu to its normal appearance.

4)  If you fail to reboot when GDI resources get low, gnubg
fails, writes a jillion critical error messages about pixel
placement to a file, and eventually either fails itself or
crashes your computer.

5)  Killing gnubg does not restore the GDI resources.

There's some reference to a graphic object or objects in
the hint windows that isn't being properly killed.  A jpg
file is attached to my second mail list message to Albert
Silver on Feb. 16.

I run Win98SE, 360 MB ram, 1.1GHz Athlon chip.

Billie

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