Tim

Only since I've moved to Vista I've started to get this in my email app. I doubt its anything to do with DBISAM but since I'm not given much info to go on I thought I'd ask you as the start of my hiar pulling out exercise.

exception class   : EOutOfResources
exception message : The parameter is incorrect.

main thread ($62c):
0047b5ac +07c TMaN.exe     segment%40  public%3689
0047b5df +007 TMaN.exe     segment%40  public%3690
.....
.... loads like this with various segment numbers and public numbers.


Roy Lambert

Roy,

<< Only since I've moved to Vista I've started to get this in my email app.
I doubt its anything to do with DBISAM but since I'm not given much info to
go on I thought I'd ask you as the start of my hiar pulling out exercise. >>

Can you run this in the debugger ?  That should show you exactly where the
error is.

--
Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

Some suggestions (just guesses)

- could indicate lack of handles (e.g. GDI) or possible permission issue .
I'm leaning towards GDI handle type of problem. is the app UI heavy - lot of
controls ?  You could do a quick check with the task manager (performance)
and see if handles spike when you launch the app.

- If you're using FastMM then fulldebugmode might help to pinpoint it

Raul


"Roy Lambert" <roy.lambert@skynet.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Tim
>
> Only since I've moved to Vista I've started to get this in my email app. I
> doubt its anything to do with DBISAM but since I'm not given much info to
> go on I thought I'd ask you as the start of my hiar pulling out exercise.
>
> exception class : EOutOfResources
> exception message : The parameter is incorrect.
>
> main thread ($62c):
> 0047b5ac +07c TMaN.exe segment%40 public%3689
> 0047b5df +007 TMaN.exe segment%40 public%3690
> ....
> ... loads like this with various segment numbers and public numbers.
>
>
> Roy Lambert

Raul


No its not overweight on controls. The thing I forgot to mention is that this is an intermittent fault - it may not occur for a couple of weeks and then hit twice in one day. Since its email / newsreader I'm just wondering if it could be some form of attack, but I don't see how.

Roy Lambert

Tim

>Can you run this in the debugger ? That should show you exactly where the
>error is.

The thing I forgot to mention, as I posted above, is its intermittent nature. Makes running in the IDE highly impractical.

Roy Lambert

After bit of googling i still believe it's a resource allocation issue but
some comments indicate it might be a more generic API failure (usually still
resource related) that VCL simply reports as EOutOfResources.

Do you do image/attachment processing in the app - that would be one
possible area where lot of resources may be allocated resulting in the error
eventually (this is just a wild guess).


If you are able to re-create it then i would suggest compiling a test
version with something like EurekaLog or MadExcept or similar (both i
believe have free trials) - if it happens again at least you would have a
stack trace and log info to get to the bottom of this.

Raul



"Roy Lambert" <roy.lambert@skynet.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Raul
>
>
> No its not overweight on controls. The thing I forgot to mention is that
> this is an intermittent fault - it may not occur for a couple of weeks and
> then hit twice in one day. Since its email / newsreader I'm just wondering
> if it could be some form of attack, but I don't see how.
>
> Roy Lambert
>

Raul


The little snippet I posted is from MadExcept and it doesn't allow you to track it down. I'll also have a go at google. What search strings did you use?

Roy Lambert

Just the basic EOutOfResources with Parameter is incorrect but also searched
newsgroup history.

Some sample  responses (lot older than Vista but general problems might be
similar ): that deal with EOutofResources and some also with Parameter is
incorrect : maybe it'll help you:

http://groups.google.com/group/borland.public.delphi.graphics/browse_thread/thread/3340db1df59f9fd6/dd8b601349393bb7?lnk=st&q=EOutOfResources#dd8b601349393bb7

http://groups.google.com/group/borland.public.delphi.vcl.components.using/browse_thread/thread/2c4bd9ded1e264e8/e28e114788a9de16?lnk=st&q=EOutOfResources#e28e114788a9de16

http://groups.google.com/group/borland.public.delphi.objectpascal/browse_thread/thread/af59e1da4e05662/2220a6d17ae91b7c?lnk=st&q=EOutOfResources#2220a6d17ae91b7c

http://groups.google.com/group/borland.public.cppbuilder.students/browse_thread/thread/ee721ca106393c36/f99ea6f466d28af6?lnk=st&q=EOutOfResources#f99ea6f466d28af6

http://groups.google.com/group/borland.public.cppbuilder.vcl.components.using/browse_thread/thread/58bbedeeb3254d53/8aeaee112339c07f?lnk=st&q=EOutOfResources#8aeaee112339c07f

http://groups.google.com/group/borland.public.delphi.ide/browse_thread/thread/ad121659858502b9/3f512bd2eabc2c19?lnk=st&q=EOutOfResources#3f512bd2eabc2c19

"Roy Lambert" <roy.lambert@skynet.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Raul
>
>
> The little snippet I posted is from MadExcept and it doesn't allow you to
> track it down. I'll also have a go at google. What search strings did you
> use?
>
> Roy Lambert
>