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Bug 547656 - [Win32] Side-placed notebook tabs leak?
[Win32] Side-placed notebook tabs leak?
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 731967
Product: gtk+
Classification: Platform
Component: Backend: Win32
unspecified
Other Windows
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gtk-win32 maintainers
gtk-bugs
: 707412 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-08-13 19:24 UTC by Cody Russell
Modified: 2017-10-17 23:59 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Cody Russell 2008-08-13 19:24:25 UTC 
Need to check out the relevant code in the theme engine.
Comment 1 Cody Russell 2008-08-13 19:27:22 UTC 
(specifically on Windows Vista, maybe on XP too)
Comment 2 William Jon McCann 2014-02-21 21:16:29 UTC 
*** Bug 707412 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Bob the Hamster 2014-03-28 16:30:04 UTC 
It is worth mentioning that duplicate bug 707412 had a lot more information than this bug does.

Notebooks with side or bottom placement leak GDI objects. top-placed notebooks do not.

The leak can cause the program to very quickly reach Windows' hard-coded limit of 10000 GDI objects, which causes a crash.
Comment 4 Grant Garcia 2014-07-17 23:52:20 UTC 
I originally reported in bug 707412 that this issue occurs in GTK 2.24.10, but I can now confirm that it's still present as recently as GTK 2.24.23.

I investigated a few memory dumps and it looks like the problem lies within Cairo, specifically in how it handles fonts; the string "Segoe UI" appears thousands of times in the segment of memory that appears to be leaking. I'm not familiar with how the various GNOME projects are connected, but it seems like this bug might need to be moved or re-tagged in some way.
Comment 5 Grant Garcia 2014-10-09 21:10:15 UTC 
GTK 2.24.24 fixes bug 731967, which seems to have been a duplicate of this bug.  I no longer observe the GDI object leak from side/bottom-placed notebook tabs.  Should this bug be marked as fixed / duplicate?
Comment 6 Emmanuele Bassi (:ebassi) 2017-10-17 23:59:29 UTC 
Marking as duplicate, as per comment 5. Thanks for your patience.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 731967 ***