> Come to think of it, in a sense it was the installation of 3DS that > introduced the problems. Before the install there was plenty of hard > drive space, now there isn't. > Perhaps, but I'd still consider it unlikely, even before Genevieve corrected that to 15 GB. With 512 MB RAM, that's enough even for Windows ^_^
I've gotten these "out of memory" errors most often with infinite recursion. I know you know what I'm talking about, Colin, so the following is for Genevieve. Look for some place where a handler is calling itself--that's recursion, and it can be a darn useful tool. It's a pretty tough concept for most of us, though, so I usually steer beginners and intermediate programmers away from recursion. Another way you can get infinite recursion is if you have two handlers that call each other. A calls B, B calls A, A calls B back, B calls A back, and so on until Director runs out of memory. It's much like the "out of office" messages we get on the list from time to time. John Dork turns on his auto-responder when he goes on vacation, but doesn't unsubscribe from the list. He gets a message from the list, which generates an "out of office" response to the list--which he gets, of course, generating another "out of office" response to the list, and on and on until Tab runs screaming into the street. Cordially, Kerry Thompson [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
