We often hear about concerns of memory usage with Basic4PPC - and then get assurances from Erel and agraham that if its not causing 'Out of Memory' exceptions; just forget about it and leave the GC alone. In fact, without using Door, there's not an easy way to force a GC on the desktop.
My attached program demonstrates this. Every timer tick, two new pie chart objects are created. So after assigning the pie object to the image, I tried to dispose of the pie. Of course the next timer tick complains because the object is no longer there. So I then used an AddObject in the Tick sub, but this time even though I had disposed of the pie; I then had an exception that I was trying to add an object thats already there.
So I just let the program run as is (its to show progress of a ROBOCOPY script, copying between two drives) and was watching memory useage in Task Manager, increase with each tick. It does so, in the order of 100-200M but then drops down to 20M again. I assume this is the GC doing its job?
My attached program demonstrates this. Every timer tick, two new pie chart objects are created. So after assigning the pie object to the image, I tried to dispose of the pie. Of course the next timer tick complains because the object is no longer there. So I then used an AddObject in the Tick sub, but this time even though I had disposed of the pie; I then had an exception that I was trying to add an object thats already there.
So I just let the program run as is (its to show progress of a ROBOCOPY script, copying between two drives) and was watching memory useage in Task Manager, increase with each tick. It does so, in the order of 100-200M but then drops down to 20M again. I assume this is the GC doing its job?