>> When I launch the app, then look at the "About this computer" window in the
>> finder, the Mac says the program is allocated for 10.6 MB, though I only
>> allocated 8000K. Hmm.... it would be cool to hear a simply stated
>> explanation of why this is, for my own info. Other Mac applications don't
>> seem to do this, or do they and I never noticed?
>
>MetaCard uses Temporary Memory for storing most stack data. Many
>other apps do similar things (PhotoShop being one of the best known),
>but since it's one of MacOSs dirty little secrets, few give any
>indication that they're doing this. One dead givaway is if the app's
>install documentation says it conflicts with RamDoubler, which uses TM
>too, and in incompatible ways. MetaCard has a TMEM resource that you
>can change to force MetaCard to stay in its own heap (partition), but
>you have to increase the partition size if you do this.
Does MC release temporary memory when it's done with it? I've had
reports of one of our standalones not release memory (no externals in
it). If this is not normal for MC I'll get more info together and
generate a formal bug report.
- Richard Gaskin
Fourth World
Multimedia Design and Development for Mac, Windows, UNIX, and the Web
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