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stefanos_:
Question: I have found something interesting and I would like someone to explain to me this certain behavior.

I am under Windows XP, svn-7713, TDM's GCC 4.6.1 and as soon as I start Code::Blocks, I can see from Task Manager that it takes approximately 50,950K from memory, but as soon as I press the Minimize button it drops immediately to 5,250K ~= 6,200K.

Can someone explain this to me? Enlighten me please...

Cheers

oBFusCATed:
Windows "feature", when something is minimized windows moves it out of memory.

All apps should behave the same.

tgucm:

--- Quote from: oBFusCATed on January 25, 2012, 03:48:25 pm ---Windows "feature", when something is minimized windows moves it out of memory.

All apps should behave the same.

--- End quote ---

sorry if this seems obvious to everyone but could you explain that a little more for me please; i'm trying to wrap my head around the primary window operations in various o/s's atm :)

Also a quick offtopic: I just noticed that the nightly I installed last night ( my first install of C::B on this pc ) seems to be self-contained in the extracted folder; does this mean that C::B is self-contained and therefore can be used without installing it anywhere like on a usb stick?

oBFusCATed:
Here is some discussion about it: http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/454007-Minimize-Window-Drop-its-Mem-Usage

C::B is not self contained, because by default it saves the settings in your home folder (%APP_DATA%/Codeblocks).
For self contained c::b you need c::b portable. Search the forum for more details.

tgucm:
Sweet, thanks!

hmm... here's a question..  if we extract the nightly build of C::B to a usb stick and then run it at least once on all the computers we are using ( linux box 1,2,3 xp box, win 7 box ect ) then would that also work as well?  -or- would the portable verison be best?

I ask because i'd like to not loose any features in favor of portability if that makes sence :)

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