PRB: "Orphan" Metafiles Not Tracked by Debugging Windows

Last reviewed: July 23, 1997
Article ID: Q82168

3.10 WINDOWS kbprg kbprb

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) for Windows version 3.1

If an application fails to delete a GDI object (for example, a pen) before it shuts down, the debugging version of Windows will write a warning message to the debug terminal. However, the debugging version of Windows does not produce a warning message if an application creates a metafile and does not delete it before termination.

This behavior does not unduly constrain memory because metafiles are stored in global memory and are freed automatically at application termination.

Additional reference words: 3.10
KBCategory: kbprg kbprb
KBSubcategory: GdiMeta
Keywords : kb16bitonly

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Last reviewed: July 23, 1997
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