Program get slower and slower then gradually freezes.

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>>When you run in DEBUG mode do you get a message about memory leaks when you close the app?
Do you mean build the debug version and run the exe on my device for a short while then close it.
What kind of a message do you mean? A pop up message box??

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OK I'll try that.
I am also going to test my app again only without launching certain dialogs, that way I will try to narrow it down to which dialogs might be causing the problem.
Is this a good way to go??
My problem is that it took 4.5 hours of use for it to freeze so its a bit of a nightmare....

Can you think of any other ways to track down resource leaks??

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The users of my progam only ever use it for about one hour at a time. And since it crashes after about 4 hours use, if I tell them to exit my program after they use it, will that will that mean that any leaks will be cleared?

This may buy me some time until I gat if fixed...

Let me know your thoughts sure.

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Thanks for all the comments.

I have built my program in debug mode and started to run it in the emulator.
The first dialog screen shows up fine but when I press a button to launch the next 'main menu' screen I get an error at line 1. below: (Please see the attached file for the error).

void CBegin::OnOkButton()
{
1. CMainMenu dlgMainMenu;
2. dlgMainMenu.DoModal();
}

Perhaps this is nothing or it could be an indication of a problem.

I appreciate any help you can give me.
Error.jpg

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>>All that needs is for the app to be run in DEBUG mode from the IDE and look at the output pane.

I cant run it in the output pane due to the above error. :o( ANy ideas?

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I ran my program in debug and stepped through it and noticed some things which were showing to be a problem in debug mode.
For example:

In my OnPaint I was Loading a bitmap like so:
CBitmap bmp;
bmp.LoadBitmap(IDB_ARROWUP_BITMAP);

and I forgot to do
bmp.DeleteObject(); afterwards. This caused the debugger to crash.

Also I had some strange behaviour when I tried to launch dialogs where the program would also crash in debug mode so I increased the stack reserve also from the default 64k to 128K. Hopefully this will not just 'delay' the problem.

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