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From: jong@k.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Jon Gotow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Alerts sucking up memory?
Keywords: alert,memory usage,dialog manager
Message-ID: <6525@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 15 Oct 89 04:57:49 GMT
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
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I've got a cdev I've been working on that's exhibiting a strange problem.  
When certain error conditions occur, I put up an alert box using StopAlert().
Big deal, right?  Well, I seem to be losing about 8K of memory every time
I do this, based on observations I made with MemoryEater (if you're not 
familiar with it, Memory Eater is a program that simply allocates memory
and displays how much is left - it's useful for testing DA's and cdev's for
correct behavior in low memory conditions).

I'm exiting correctly from the code where the error occurs - ie. I'm not
leaving any of my data structures allocated when I shouldn't.  Is there 
something I'm missing?  All my error function does is call ParamText and
StopAlert.  Any pointers would be greatly appreciated!

If it's not something immediately obvious, I'll follow up with actual code.

				Thanks in advance,
					Jon Gotow
					jong@k.gp.cs.cmu.edu