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Posted: February 06 2008 at 11:27 | IP Logged Quote TonyNo
I don't know why I didn't do this until now...

Memory used by the SDM slowly climbs, but then drops when you activate the window and minimize it.

I created a Raw Formula Timed Event that does this every day...

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ph_switchto("TFrmMainClient",0) + ph_sendkeys("{alt+space}n") + ph_switchto(" PowerHome ", 1)


The board is trashing the last bit, so make sure that "PowerHome" has a leading, and two trailing spaces.

PowerHome seems to exhibit this behavior to a degree, too, so I'll add that bit next.

Edited by TonyNo - February 06 2008 at 11:38
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Posted: February 10 2008 at 10:13 | IP Logged Quote BeachBum
Tony, when I tried this SDM window won't minimize. Any thoughts?

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Posted: February 10 2008 at 14:02 | IP Logged Quote TonyNo
Yup, mine doesn't either. I need to see if it even clears memory.

<does some digging>

I'm getting a 3 return code just from the bit to switch back to PH.
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Posted: February 10 2008 at 14:04 | IP Logged Quote TonyNo
Okay, this is strange. It works in the Multi-Editor, but not in the Timed Event.

Code:
ph_switchto("TFrmMainClient",0) + ph_sendkeys("{alt+space}") + ph_sendkeys("n") + ph_switchto(" PowerHome ", 1)


Edited by TonyNo - February 10 2008 at 14:07
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Posted: February 10 2008 at 14:09 | IP Logged Quote BeachBum
That did it. I guess the minimize has to be separated. I was working on it but had not tried that yet. Thks.

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Posted: February 10 2008 at 16:26 | IP Logged Quote jeffw_00
trying to figure out if I need to care about this...
i have 1GB on my machine (more than I need), and reboot once a week.
how do I know if I should care?
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Posted: February 10 2008 at 19:10 | IP Logged Quote TonyNo
From what I've seen, the SDM normally only uses a few megs of RAM. This can grow to ten's of megs and beyond, but activating it and minimizing it releases the RAM.

Fire up Task Manager and see what the SDM is using.
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Posted: February 10 2008 at 19:12 | IP Logged Quote jeffw_00
currently 75Meg - not a big deal?
/j

actually what worries me was back when I was using Houselinc Desktop I discovered that if I opened up the SDM3 and mucked with it at all, HD stopped working, so now I don't touch it at all. Any risk of that here?
/j

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Posted: February 10 2008 at 19:41 | IP Logged Quote TonyNo
75M is about 20x too much.

Activate it, minimize it, then check again.

No worries. It won't hurt anything.
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Posted: February 10 2008 at 19:53 | IP Logged Quote BeachBum
I just got off the beach and told you a long time ago I wouldn’t type but here I am. I would be concerned. Mine uses about 12M and goes up and down on its own. PH grows about 3M a day.

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Posted: February 10 2008 at 20:01 | IP Logged Quote jeffw_00
the script (edited at 14:07) doesn't work for me. I end up with the SDM window in the middle of the screen, and I can't minimize it by clicking in it's top right corner. I have to first left-click on the systray icon so that it disappears, and then minimize the window.

you're doing something funky, i think.
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Posted: February 10 2008 at 20:09 | IP Logged Quote BeachBum
Tony, I'll play with it tomorrow and let you know what I run into.

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Posted: February 11 2008 at 13:35 | IP Logged Quote BeachBum
It appears the problem is occurring when we switch to the task. After that none of the keystrokes sent to the task seem to have any effect upon the window. Also I wonder if the fact SDM is being restored from the systray has any effect. The real question is will it have anything to do with memory usuage

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Posted: February 11 2008 at 22:34 | IP Logged Quote TonyNo
Yup. The problem starts right from the get-go. Simply switching to it causes that weird behavior. I even tried switching to it by name (not class) with the same results.
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Posted: February 11 2008 at 23:15 | IP Logged Quote BeachBum
Yup, tried that too to no avail. I spent many hours experimenting and did not find a work around.

Edited by BeachBum - February 11 2008 at 23:16

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