Re: Forms 4.5 - Memory Problem

From: Jimmy <c6635500_at_comp.polyu.edu.hk>
Date: 1999/10/04
Message-ID: <37F86A15.A8E0F3A4_at_comp.polyu.edu.hk>#1/1


Hello Paul,

    I only know that the problem MAY occured if:

  1. *.FMB size over 1M in Forms 4.5
  2. Too many data blocks defined in Forms 4.5 (or too many items in the data blocks)
  3. The Forms run other appliactions such as Excel (using OLE)

    I read your next post and you said you embeded Oracle Graphics in your Forms. Is this Forms that has the memory problem? I use Forms 5.0 on Win95 with 64M RAM, open Forms Designer, Forms RunTime, SQL*Plus, WinWord or even Excel at the same time with no problem occured. Maybe you should upgrade to Forms 5.0 to see whether this error occured.

Jimmy

Paul Hancock wrote:

> Jimmy, thanks for your reply.
>
> The FMB file is on;y 264KB.
>
> I have not used any OLE functions.
>
> Any other ideas?
>
> Paul.
>
> Jimmy <c6635500_at_comp.polyu.edu.hk> wrote in message
> news:37F4DE0F.AA60E41F_at_comp.polyu.edu.hk...
> >
> > You said your Forms not particularly big or complex, then what is the size
 of
> > the *.FMB file? I heard that *.FMB size should not over 1M in Forms 4.5.
> > Moreover, did you use other functions such as Forms OLE? Did you free the
> > memory after using this function?
> >
> > Jimmy
> >
> > Paul Hancock wrote:
> >
> > > Also, there are only 1000 rows in the table.
> > >
> > > Paul.
> > >
> > > Steve Cosner <stevec_at_zimmer.csufresno.edu> wrote in message
> > > news:IrQI3.84$dB1.6590_at_nntp.csufresno.edu...
> > > > Do you have a base-table block where your form is doing a Last_Record
> > > > command? If there are lots of rows, this has been a problem with
 Forms.
> > > >
> > > > Steve Cosner
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > In article <7t0irk$48g$1_at_plutonium.btinternet.com>,
> > > > Paul Hancock <freddie_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > > >One of the forms seems to be EXTREMELY memory hungry when it runs.
 I've
 ran
> > > > >it it on a number of PC's and all are pretty beefy (128MB of RAM).
 The
 form
> > > > >is not particularly big or complex, certainly no bigger than the
 other 3
 I
> > > > >have developed.
> > > > >
> > > > >It refuses to run if I have any more than 2 other applications open
 (eg.
> > > > >WORD, FORMS DESIGNER). When running it gets so for into displaying
 the
 gui
> > > > >when it stops and displays a message "cannot display item {item
 name}".
 If I
> > > > >then quit WORD say, and re-run it (without re-booting) it runs fine.
> >
Received on Mon Oct 04 1999 - 00:00:00 CEST

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