Reducing used GDI resources (use TImageList)

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You need to reduce the amount of GDI resources used by your application?

Check out this:

Each and every TBitmap/TIcon/TImage you use, consumes one handle. And Windows (Win95, 98 and NT) can only handle a restricted amount of handles. The %-resources show you how many percent of the handles are not used yet.
So you should use TImageList. This is a bitmap/icon container, in which you can put all images/icons that have the same size and color depth. And every TImageList consumes only one handle.

For other ways to save memory, take a look at the 'See Also' section.

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