Check also that your Editor/Compiler pref for adding something extra to the project's heap hasn't somehow gotten set to something huge. You'll find that in the Compiler pane. Robert On Sunday, July 13, 2003, at 07:25 PM, Robert Covington wrote: > > On Sunday, July 13, 2003, at 05:36 PM, JLemons660@... wrote: > >> I am using FB3 Release 7 with Mac OS 9.1 >> I just compiled and built a rather small program which, when I check >> in the >> Apple menu is using over 40Mb of memory. My system only uses 38+. >> >> I have a couple of other small programs which were compiled and built >> and use >> about 3MB of memory. When I open these projects and build them (with >> different names) they now require over 40MB. >> >> Any suggestions? >> >> John Lemons >> JLemons660@... > > Your project's resource file has perhaps a size resource that got set > higher somehow, or you have some DIM Systems(Mucho mucho) in there > somewhere perhaps? > > Or, you have DIMed some non-dynamic arrays that are tanking up the > heap way on up there maybe? > > Build a plain old > > Print "hello" > Do > until FN button > > and see what that takes. (should be near same as the size resource > reports in Get Info) > > Then make a project with just the above as your main, and which also > uses your resources file. > > If still the same, then it's not the Size in your resources (you can > just look in ResEdit too) > > Finally, copy on over, and add any globals from the problem project to > the test project. Build again and run...if that's your problem, then > it is probably some multi-dimensional array , or a giant string array > all at 255 length. > > Hope something here is a clue. > > Robert > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, send ANY message to > <futurebasic-unsubscribe@...> >