Hi All,

I have recently moved from VB3 to VB6, painful to say the least. I used to
be able to check the user and GDI memories in 16-bit version using Win API
GetFreeSystemResources.

For VB6, Microsoft manuals point me in the direction of GlobalMemoryStatus
API call in Kernel32, I cannot find any correlation.

The irksome thing is that the Stress utility supplied as part of Visual
Studio seems to report this successfully and this matches with system
resources reported by the venerable My Computer Right Click performance
figures.

Could somebody help ?

If this question has already been posted, please forgive me, any help would
be appreciated.

Your forlorn Techy

Desi

That information is only entirely accurate for the 16-bit
subsystem. You can't get an exact correlation in 32-bit
code. There are alternative metrics available; as Adrian
indicated, post what you need to find out, and perhaps
we can help.

Thanks for coming back to me. I have an MDI application where I load child
windows based on a generic form.

This form has a MsFlexGrid control and a graph control (Graphics Server V5.5
which used to be part of original VB).

I dynamically create instances of this generic form using

Dim myform as  new GenForm

and store the form handle in a Redimmed array using Set

After 15 or 20 Child windows, the resources drop in my Win 98
machine, so I wanted to check the GDI and user heaps to prevent
the creation of additional child windows

Thanks again for coming back to me, any help would be appreciated.

Desi