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> GDI resources are very limited.
Ok; I'll google this one to get a better idea...


> Available physical memory is different then available GDI resources.
Perhaps google will be my friend here too. :)

> Are you absolutely sure that 'delete' is always being called?  In any
> case, how much UI resources are you already using before creating the
> new form instance?
YES  There is no other way for the code to exit from that function.

> But what does the rest of your UI contain?
My whole user interface has a number of other buttons, labels, graphs, 
etc.  The weird thing I don't understand is that I am basically in a loop:

Simplified code is as follows:

void MyClass::TheLoop()
{
   bool Stop = false;
   while (!Stop)
   {
      TCustomForm *theDialogThatCrashes;
      theDialogThatCrashes = new TCustomForm(this);  //<-- This is where 
the out of resources occurs
      theDialogThatCrashes->Visible = true;
      TriggerLongHardwareRelatedTask();
      bool DoingSomeLongHardwareRelatedTask = true;
      while (DoingSomeLongHardwareRelatedTask)
      {
         //update the progress bar
	if (theDialogThatCrashes->ProgressBar->Position > 
theDialogThatCrashes->ProgressBar->Max)
          {
              theDialogThatCrashes->ProgressBar->Position = 0;
	 }
         else
	{
           theDialogThatCrashes->ProgressBar->Position += 1;
         }
	DoingSomeLongHardwareRelatedTask = !HardwareTaskComplete();
         Application->ProcessMessages(); //call this so that Button 
event on theDialogThatCrashes is called; the button event sets that 
forms Stopped boolean value to true if it is pressed
         if (theDialogThatCrashes->Stopped)
         {
           DoingSomeLongHardwareRelatedTask = false;
           Stop = true;
	}
      }
      theDialogThatCrashes->Visible = false;
      delete theDialogThatCrashes;
   }
}


For simplicity, the hardware event is sending a message out of the 
serial port and waiting for the RXBuffer on taht serial port to reach a 
certain byte level.

I don't see why I'm running out of resources with the above code.

Any suggestions?