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

[Nis]

--On Thursday, February 20, 2003 08:35 -0800 Billie Patterson 
<address@hidden> wrote:

> 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.

I can confirm that opening and closing the hint window increases allocated 
GDI objects by 1 (as reported by Win 2K task list). Luckily, such bugs are 
unlikely to cause the same kind of problems in win2k as they do in Win9x.

> 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.

I confirm the first, second is probably Win98 "collateral damage".

> 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.

See above

> 5)  Killing gnubg does not restore the GDI resources.

Don't know how to check this is Win2K

> There's some reference to a graphic object or objects in
> the hint windows that isn't being properly killed.

Yep, it seems like (some) GTK objects needs explicit deallocation. I 
actually found another bug of the same type while testing yours: The 
closing dialogue - "Are you sure you want to exit and abort the game in 
progress." - also increases GDI objects by 1.

--
Nis Jorgensen
Greenpeace
Amsterdam