Rather large EXE - needs a diet

[Eddie Burdak]

Hi,

with put together a little DB app. It has an ADO connection, a tree view, a
grid and we're using Videosoft's VSVIEW ocx as the print engine.

On compiling the app it hit 16 MB! I think Kathleen helped me out on
something similar to this before but I don't remember her suggestion - poor
form I know.

Any clues anyone?

Thanks

Eddie

[=?iso-8859-1?Q?Herv=E9?= Thouzard]

Hi Eddie,

I had some very good results with 'UPX', an excellent exe compressor
(freeware) :
http://wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at/mfx/upx.html

Bye,
Hervé


Eddie Burdak wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> with put together a little DB app. It has an ADO connection, a tree view, a
> grid and we're using Videosoft's VSVIEW ocx as the print engine.
>
> On compiling the app it hit 16 MB! I think Kathleen helped me out on
> something similar to this before but I don't remember her suggestion - poor
> form I know.
>
> Any clues anyone?
>
> Thanks
>
> Eddie

[Eddie Burdak]

Yo,

> On compiling the app it hit 16 MB! I think Kathleen helped me out on
> something similar to this before but I don't remember her suggestion -
poor
> form I know.

Re-starting VB and producing the exe at start shrinks it a little - to 180
kb.

Me thinks there's a memory leak

Eddie

[=?iso-8859-1?Q?Herv=E9?= Thouzard]

Eddie Burdak wrote:
>
> Yo,
>
> > On compiling the app it hit 16 MB! I think Kathleen helped me out on
> > something similar to this before but I don't remember her suggestion -
> poor
> > form I know.
>
> Re-starting VB and producing the exe at start shrinks it a little - to 180
> kb.
You must have a large amount of bitmaps into your project no ?


> Me thinks there's a memory leak
"Me" thinks, really ? ;-)))

Bye,
Hervé

[Bob O`Bob]

"Hervé Thouzard" <hthouzard@rsi.fr> wrote :
>
> > Me thinks there's a memory leak
> "Me" thinks, really ? ;-)))
>


Methinks thou dost read Shakspear too little.



Bob O`Bob
--

[Eddie Burdak]

Herve
> > > On compiling the app it hit 16 MB! I think Kathleen helped me out on
> > > something similar to this before but I don't remember her suggestion -
> > poor
> > > form I know.
> >
> > Re-starting VB and producing the exe at start shrinks it a little - to
180
> > kb.
> You must have a large amount of bitmaps into your project no ?

Nope, there are 5 16x16 icons, and 2 bitmaps (bog standard traffic lights
from the VB graphics library)

> > Me thinks there's a memory leak
> "Me" thinks, really ? ;-)))

Yup, the dude doing the writing noticed that as he was testing the app
through the day it slowing down strangely enough.

Eddie

[=?iso-8859-1?Q?Herv=E9?= Thouzard]

Bob O`Bob wrote:
>
> "Hervé Thouzard" <hthouzard@rsi.fr> wrote :
> >
> > > Me thinks there's a memory leak
> > "Me" thinks, really ? ;-)))
> >
>
> Methinks thou dost read Shakspear too little.
may be....