What about if you localize the creation of a window? For example, I sometimes will use a sub that creates a window only when called and when the sub returns the window and any reference to it is undef?
-----Original Message----- From: Jeremy White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 3:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; perl-win32-gui-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [perl-win32-gui-users] Destroying a window Unfortunately undef does not release the resources that window uses. So, if you need to dynamically create (and destroy) a window continually then at some point you will run out of memory. >From: Peter Eisengrein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "'Cruickshanks, Darin'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >perl-win32-gui-users@lists.sourceforge.net >Subject: RE: [perl-win32-gui-users] Destroying a window >Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 12:14:22 -0500 > >One quick and dirty way to do it would be undef($Window); but that may >cause >other problems if you have other widgets that reference the window. For >example, if you have a Timer that updates a clock on $Window every second, >you will begin to get errors every second. So, unless you *really* want to >eliminate it, you might be better to just Hide it. > >-----Original Message----- >From: Cruickshanks, Darin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 5:21 AM >To: perl-win32-gui-users@lists.sourceforge.net >Subject: [perl-win32-gui-users] Destroying a window > > > >All, > >How do you destroy a window in Win32::Gui? I read about a Destroy() method >but this doesn't seem to help. In the past I have just hidden any windows >that I wanted to remove but I now nee to destroy one completely. > > > >Darin >-------------------------------------------- >Darin Cruickshanks >Labs Manager, Computing Service >University of Essex > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >01206 873585 > _________________________________________________________________ Sign-up for a FREE BT Broadband connection today! http://www.msn.co.uk/specials/btbroadband
