FIX: Memory Leak With SET SYSMENU OFF

ID: Q221738

The information in this article applies to:

SYMPTOMS

If you repeatedly run a form and the system menu is set off, the following error may eventually occur:

There is not enough memory to complete this operation.
After that message appears, Visual FoxPro may have difficulty performing other tasks and report more insufficient memory messages.


STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.This bug was corrected in Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 3. For more information about Visual Studio service packs, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q194022 INFO: Visual Studio 6.0 Service Packs, What, Where, Why

Q194295 HOWTO: Tell That Visual Studio 6.0 Service Packs Are Installed


MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

  1. Run the following code from a program (.prg) file:


    2. 
   CLEAR ALL
   PUBLIC Pubrunform
   Pubrunform=.T.
   SET SYSMENU OFF

   ON KEY LABEL ctrl+f8 _SCREEN.FORMS(1).RELEASE()
   ON ESCAPE Pubrunform=.F.
   X=1
   DO WHILE Pubrunform=.T.
	WAIT '' TIME .08 && take this out and get ox or forms
   && is not an object
	ox=CREATEOBJECT('form')
	ox.CAPTION = ALLTRIM(STR(X)) +' iterations - press escape to quit'
	KEYBOARD '{ctrl+f8}'
	ox.SHOW(1)
	X=X+1
   ENDDO
   ON KEY LABEL ctrl+f8
   SET SYSMENU TO DEFAULT
   SET SYSMENU AUTO
   ON ESCAPE
   RETURN
  2. NOTE: If you get either of these messages press Ignore:
    ox is not an object.


    -or-


    3. forms is not an object.

Eventually, you get the following error:
There is not enough memory to complete this operation.
The error usually occurs after about 500 iterations. The same behavior happens in Visual FoxPro 5.0a and 6.0.

If you look at the VFP6.exe file in the Windows NT 4.0 Task Manager, you will see the memory usage increase. However, two Visual FoxPro SYS() functions that look at memory usage, SYS(1016) and SYS(1011), do not increase. The error does not occur without the SET SYSMENU OFF command.

Additional query words: KBDSE 


Keywords          : kbservicepack kbContainer kbCtrl kbVFp500abug kbVFp600 kbVFp600bug kbVS600sp2 kbVS600SP1 kbVS600sp3fix kbGrpFox 
Version           : WINDOWS:5.0a,6.0
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbbug

Last Reviewed: May 19, 1999