Jacques,
In Wine there's currently a limitation on the size of the GDI heap. It is
limited to 64K. This is a old limitation from Win 3.1 (16 bits), this
limitation doesn't exist under Win9x/WinNT.
Alexandre fixed that issue on the Corel wine tree, and I'm pretty sure
eventually somebody will merge his work back into Wine-HQ source tree. It
could even be you :-)
If your application creates a lot of Gdi objects that could be the problem.
Or maybe also your application leaks some Gdi object, if it's the case
you'll run into that problem (no more space in the Gdi heap) much faster
than in Windows. I think in Windows you can create 64K objects before
Windows starts to complain.
Stephane Lussier.
Macadamian Technologies
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jacques Gelinas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 12:58 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: LOCAL_GetBlock not enough space in GDI local heap
>
>
> We are trying to run a win32 application on wine and linux. The
> application is starting and ultimatly fails with the following message.
>
> LOCAL_GetBlock not enough space in GDI local heap (01d7) for 60 bytes
>
> The application does quite a lot before failing. It does ODBC access to a
> sybase server, brings its splash screen, then its main windows. Note that
> this application main window use quite a few widgets. It is made of a
> notebook object with several data browsers and input fields distributed in
> the various pages.
>
> Trying to pinpoint the offending piece of code (This is our own
> application, so we have to source), we think it is not any code in
> particular, but simply because there are two many widgets. Commenting out
> the area where our app fails, we get a little further and fails in another
> window.
>
> I would expect that a 32 bit application is not using the 16 bits heap
> much (--debugmsg +heap shows differently). Am I missing something ?
>
> The application is built using the wxWindow 1.66 toolkit.
>
> We came to the following conclusion (and we are no windows expert). Anyone
> may comment ?
>
> It is a limitation in wine. Its GDI library is still using a lot
> of 16 bits object.
>
> It is a limitation in win32. Is has to use 16 bits heap objects
> (then why our app is working correctly in windows and windows NT)
>
> Something odd is happening somewhere and confuse wine, so the
> error above does not mean much.
>
> We are getting this with the latest CVS version (well, updated may 25)
>
>
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> Jacques Gelinas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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