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I'm creating a simple tray icon prg and want it to use as little of ram as possible. What can i do to acheive this?

Does creating and killing everything on the form (text boxes, labels, ect) with code decrease the imprint vs setting it up visually?

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Hi!

> "Does creating and killing everything on the form (text boxes, labels, ect) with code decrease the imprint
vs setting it up visually?"

Regarding this, VB uses about 1KB of memory for each label, a little more than 1KB of memory for picture boxes, and for the pictures, it takes up the same memory as the size of the picture file (ie. 1 500KB picture uses 500KB of memory).

Thus, there's definitely a trade off between the display and memory usage.

Thus, using as little controls and pictures s possible would help decrease memory usage of your program.

That's it!

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gwgaw

Like inthedark says C++ is the best for systray apps and, whether you use C++ or VB, your systray app
should do nothing more than sit in the tray and launch another VB app or what ever. Your tray app
should have no controls other than a menu.

'The problem with VB Systray Apps is when the users loads another VB app, you may get a DLL in use message.'

I've been using VB for systray apps since VB4 and never got a dll in use message regardless of how
many VB apps were running.

inthedark

gwgaw I hope you are right but dosen't it depend on what your systray app is doing?