Ah, in that case, I also do my own dialogs. lol :) Prolly not the ideal fix for a "serious" app tho.
Regards, Paul Johnson Applewood House www.applewoodhouse.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron Ardiri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 2:23 PM Subject: Re: Palm OS bugs in low memory conditions? > > It's even worse on the PocketPC. If you ask for ram there's no > > room for, rather than returning NULL, the O/S goes away to compact > > memory, fails every time, and locks up your machine. This is real > > handy given the often very tight restrictions on memory we're already > > used to. > > > > I solved it by writing my own memory allocator working from one big > > chunk allocated by the O/S at program startup. It's actually very > > simple once you get your head around it and will solve a lot of > > headaches like this. > > > > Would this be a feasible fix ? > > unfortunately, not :) > > most of the crashes are with bringing up forms/dialogs :( very fun. > i try to keep my dynamic memory usage to around 32K - use different > techniques to get higher than that; works for me. > > --- > Aaron Ardiri [EMAIL PROTECTED] > CEO - CTO +46 70 656 1143 > Mobile Wizardry http://www.mobilewizardry.com/ > > > -- > For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/ > -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
