[fxruby-users] is there a memory limitation on fxruby-mswin32 ?

[Erdwin Lianata]

Hi All,

I wonder is there a memory limitation on fxruby-mswin32 ?
I build an application which uses a lot of checkboxes, it seems running
well on Linux...but it crashes on Windows.

Would you please try to run the following code...

========= HERE IS THE CODE ========
require 'fox16'
include Fox

class CheckersView < FXMatrix
   def initialize(parent)
     super(parent, 10, :opts => MATRIX_BY_COLUMNS)
     5.times { 10.times {
       FXCheckButton.new(self, '', :opts => LAYOUT_FILL_X|LAYOUT_FILL_Y)
     } }
   end
end

class TestView < FXMainWindow
   def initialize(app)
     super(app, 'Test Memory App', :opts => DECOR_ALL,
                 :width => 600, :height => 600)

     vframe = FXVerticalFrame.new(self, LAYOUT_FILL)
     FXButton.new(vframe, 'Add') do |button|
       button.connect(SEL_COMMAND) do
         add_table(@frame, true)
         @frame.parent.layout
         puts "add_table"
       end
     end
     @counter = 1

     FXScrollWindow.new(vframe, LAYOUT_FILL) do |scroll|
       @frame = FXVerticalFrame.new(scroll, LAYOUT_FILL)
       93.times { add_table(@frame) }
     end
   end

   def add_table(table_parent, with_create=false)
     vframe = FXVerticalFrame.new(table_parent)
     label  = FXLabel.new(vframe, @counter.to_s)
     matrix  = FXMatrix.new(vframe, 3, :opts => MATRIX_BY_COLUMNS)
     CheckersView.new(matrix)
     FXVerticalFrame.new(matrix)
     CheckersView.new(matrix)

     vframe.create if with_create
     @counter += 1
   end

   def create
     super
     show(PLACEMENT_SCREEN)
   end
end

FXApp.new do |app|
   TestView.new(app)
   app.create
   app.run
end
========= END OF CODE ========

Here I create 93 rows whose each row has 2 table and each table consists
of 50 checkboxes. At the topmost of window is a button that is intended
to add a new row. The application will crash if the total of rows reach 95.
Sometimes it gives a "[BUG] Segmentation fault" messsage which points to
FXMatrix's constructor (kwargs.rb). But sometimes it will silently hang,
at this moment you can check that the output of "add_table" isn't
printed even though the button was clicked.

My Windows spesifications are RubyOneClickInstaller-1.8.26 and lib
FXRuby-1.6.12 which come along with the installer.
I can run the code on Linux, I even can test it with given 150 rows and
it's still running well. My Linux specifications are Ruby-1.8.5 and
installed gem fxruby-1.6.15.

Any workaround for this issue?


Thanks,

Erdwin