"Marc Friedman" <MarcFried***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have a VB6 application which uses HTMLHelp.  When running the executable,
> there are reproducible instances where selecting help causes a blank help
> window to appear at which point the application goes 100% CPU bound and
> eats
> up memory for about 30 seconds and then crashes with:
>
> There is not enough memory available for this task.
> Quit one or more programs to increase available memory, and then try
> again.
>
> followed by an Application Error:
>
> The instruction at ... reference memory at ... The memory could not be
> "read".
>
> However, this behaviour does NOT occur when running the application in the
> IDE (except for one time which has proven to be unreproducible).  As far
> as I
> can tell the creation of the help window and the display of the help file
> contents is handled completely by the HTMLHelp routine of hhctrl.ocx.
> Does
> anybody know of any reason why this kind of behaviour would occur?  Any
> suggestions would be welcome.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Marc

"Bonj" wrote:

> vb has the ability to produce a pdb file, you could do that and then attempt
> production mode debugging.
>
> "Marc Friedman" <MarcFried***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:9134808F-652D-4903-B68E-C4C891FB7580@microsoft.com...
> >I have a VB6 application which uses HTMLHelp.  When running the executable,
> > there are reproducible instances where selecting help causes a blank help
> > window to appear at which point the application goes 100% CPU bound and
> > eats
> > up memory for about 30 seconds and then crashes with:
> >
> > There is not enough memory available for this task.
> > Quit one or more programs to increase available memory, and then try
> > again.
> >
> > followed by an Application Error:
> >
> > The instruction at ... reference memory at ... The memory could not be
> > "read".
> >
> > However, this behaviour does NOT occur when running the application in the
> > IDE (except for one time which has proven to be unreproducible).  As far
> > as I
> > can tell the creation of the help window and the display of the help file
> > contents is handled completely by the HTMLHelp routine of hhctrl.ocx.
> > Does
> > anybody know of any reason why this kind of behaviour would occur?  Any
> > suggestions would be welcome.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Marc
>
>
>

"J French" wrote:

> On Fri, 27 May 2005 10:17:21 -0700, "=?Utf-8?B?TWFyYyBGcmllZG1hbg==?="
> <MarcFried***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >I have a VB6 application which uses HTMLHelp.  When running the executable,
> >there are reproducible instances where selecting help causes a blank help
> >window to appear at which point the application goes 100% CPU bound and eats
> >up memory for about 30 seconds and then crashes with:
> >
> >There is not enough memory available for this task.
> >Quit one or more programs to increase available memory, and then try again.
>
> Probably bad HTML - replace the lot with something simple
>
> Then, if my hunch is correct, look for a few HTML parsers
> - and let your help pages 'run the gauntlet'
>
> ie: check out the HTML through at least three parsers
>
> Personally I would delegate the Help function to a totally separate
> EXE - but that is a different matter
>