The standard TCombobox uses a lot of windows resources.
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> Sent: Thursday, August 12, 1999 4:19 PM
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> Subject: Re: [DUG-OFFTOPIC]: System Resources
>
> Quoting Andrew Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Frequently I run out of system resources and my system crashes. This =
> > happens when my current project is open with Delphi 3 and I am running =
> > my app (I tend to have quite a few units open at once). I had 32MB RAM =
> > which I have just upgraded to 80MB. This installed fine, my PC seems to
> =
> > recognise it etc BUT I'm still no better off. The amount of disk =
> > swapping has reduced dramatically as you'd expect but I still run out of
> =
> > system resources. I thought my RAM upgrade would cure this but it =
> > hasn't. Any idea what "resource" I'm running out o. I've got about 150MB
> =
> > HDD space free for the windows swap file.
> >
> > Any help very much appreciated.
>
> I assume you are running Windows 95 / 98
>
> Upgrade to Windows NT and you will not have any resource problems.
>
> The resource heaps in Windows 95 are fixed size and will not change with
> memory
> or disk space.
>
> If you can't upgrade, run the Resource Meter to keep an eye on your free
> resources. Close as many other applications as you need to keep the meter
> in
> the green.
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