[vtkusers] Memory Leak In SampleMFC Example

[Brad King]

Scott Merritt wrote:
> I have compiled and run the SampleMFC project in VC++6.0 (SP5) using 
> both static and shared MFC libraries. I have not modified the source 
> files in any way from how they were distributed. Every time a render 
> window is opened and re-closed in this application, around 3MB of memory 
> is allocated and never de-allocated. As I continued to open and close 
> windows, the memory continued to build up to 1.75GB at which point the 
> program crashed. I am working on 2 other programs which use similar 
> rendering constructs (one compiled in .NET) which exhibit the same 
> behavior. Typically the rendering window is only opened perhaps a dozen 
> times so this is not critical, but from a robustness and performance 
> standpoint it is certainly worrisome.   If any other users have 
> experienced this same phenomenon, can avoid it or have any insight, 
> please let me know. The sample code I used is in 
> VTK/Examples/GUI/Win32/SampleMFC/

This is probably a bug.  Please report it here:

http://www.vtk.org/Bug

Thanks,
-Brad