MemPtrFree not freeing string pointer

[Jonathan Mason]

What I'm trying to do is have a gadget display a number which I store in 
a TimeType variable as the gadget's data, then on drawing I take the 
numbers out of the TimeType variable and convert them to a string using 
StrIToA everything seems to work fine. But calling MemPtrFree does not 
actually free the memory. Here's the code I'm using minus code that 
actually does the drawing and manipulating the data.

char *string1;                  // string pointer def.
string1 = MemPtrNew(sizeof(char) * 7);  // allocating string pointer memory
StrIToA(string1, decimal);	// decimal is minutes in decimal hours, works 
fine

// Clean up
if (string1)
{
        MemPtrFree(string1);
        string1 = NULL;
}
Other functions I call on the string are StrLen, FntCharsWidth, 
WinDrawChars.

This bug is really bad when I have several gadgets per form and they get 
redrawn several times when updating and memory is leaked like crazy.

Any help with what is causing my problem or a better solution would be 
greatly appreciated.

Jonathan Mason
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