GDI leak in FreeMarker IDE

[kyle30312]

I'm seeing Eclipse crashes that I think are caused by a GDI handle leak in the FreeMarker IDE plugin for Eclipse.

Using FreeMarker IDE 1.0.0.beta3 with Eclipse 3.3.1.1 on Windows XP SP2, as I type inside a directive tag (like <@abc name="def" />), the Outline view updates. As it updates, the GDI handle count (visible in Process Explorer) increases; when it reaches 9,999, Eclipse fails to paint and won't shut down cleanly.

The number of handles leaked appears to be N for each character typed, where N is the number of items displayed in the Outline view. Not showing the Outline view at all (i.e. close it and restart Eclipse) appears to work around the problem.

- Is anyone else seeing this problem?
- Can anyone recommend a fix? From a quick look at the code, I'm guessing Image objects may not be getting dispose()'d, but I'm not sure when they should be disposed.

[maxandersen]

No I haven't seen that.

[satan3]

no

[krogh]

*bump*

I noticed the same problem, on Vista and XP/SP2, using freemarker-ide-1.0.0.beta3, an up-to-date eclipse 3.3 and freemarker 2.3.9
-BUT- I'm not using the outline view

I'm unable to spot when it's exactly happening. Sometimes eclipse crashes after 5 minutes and sometimes it takes hours.

Here are some observations:
When working on an FTL file, copy-paste operations and using auto-completion seem to cause crashes faster.
If i've some ftl files open but work on a Java file, there's no problem.
By monitoring Task Manager, the crash is cleary due to a GDI handle leak
As the GDI handle count is increasing, freemarker ide becomes slower until it becomes unresponsive, and then so does eclipse; unable to save or do anything else such as close a file.

I just updated to a nightly build and hope this will solve my problem :)

Hope this help to reproduce it.

[maxandersen]

we haven't changed anything in the freemarker IDE for a long time so i doubt it has gone away.

Anyone that figures out what is causing it is encouraged to open up an issue in jira about it.

Thanks