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GDI object leakage

2011-04-08 01:52:03 Moscow time

I have just seen a massive GDI-object leakage today working with some application.

The application runs on Windows XP and when the number of GDI-objects equals to the 9999, there are user-interface artifacts.
So, the root cause: that application uses a timer and every time interval it allocates some GDI-resources, but does not release it.
I have found the root cause by using Windows Task Manager (Handles counter column).

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