Slide animator uses a lot of memory

ajhvdb · 07-03-2010 19:41

Maybe it's anothere library i'm using but I can go to other forms from my home form 8 or 9 times and then I get exceptions like "out of memory".

Is there anything wrong with the code i'm using? I need to do it this way because the touchlistbox doesn't slide away. The background slide beneath it.

To speed things up, I created 2 bitmaps before using this function..

Code:

private void StartForm(Form Frm)

        {

            SlideAnimator tSlideAnimator;

            Graphics tGraphicsBuffer;

            tGraphicsBuffer = this.CreateGraphics();

            tSlideAnimator = new SlideAnimator(_bmImageOne, _bmImageTwo, tGraphicsBuffer);

            tSlideAnimator.BackgroundColor = System.Drawing.Color.Red;

            if (!_StopAnimation)

            {

                try

                {

                    tlbMenu.Visible = false; //Hide, because the Animation doesn't move it

                    tSlideAnimator.Animate(SlideAnimator.SlideDirection.sdLeft);

                    Frm.ShowDialog();

                    Frm.Dispose();

                }

                catch

                {

                    _StopAnimation = true;

                }

            }

            if (!_StopAnimation)

            {

                try

                {

                    tSlideAnimator = new SlideAnimator(_bmImageTwo, _bmImageOne, tGraphicsBuffer);

                    tSlideAnimator.Animate(SlideAnimator.SlideDirection.sdRight);

                }

                catch

                {

                    _StopAnimation = true;

                }

            }

            tGraphicsBuffer.Dispose();

            if (!tlbMenu.Visible) //Show again

            {

                tlbMenu.Visible = true;

            }

        }

***Sascha Lange*** · 23-03-2010 12:33

You have to Dispose() _bmImageOne and _bmImageTwo. Otherwise it will be still stored in memory.

ajhvdb · 23-03-2010 13:11

(23-03-2010 12:33)Sascha Lange Wrote: You have to Dispose() _bmImageOne and _bmImageTwo. Otherwise it will be still stored in memory.

These are local vars.

I need to use bitmap.dispose(); ?

***Sascha Lange*** · 23-03-2010 13:20

In your case _bmImageOne and _bmImageTwo are bitmaps, so you have to dispose them after you are finished with SlideAnimator:

_bmImageOne.Dispose();
_bmImageTwo.Dispose();

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