[cairo] How can I find out the current color when I call cairo_fill?

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at behdad.org
Fri Jan 4 00:39:09 PST 2008


On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 03:14 -0500, ying lcs wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Can you please tell me if there is any function in cairo which allow me to find
> out what is the color (rbg), when i call
> cairo_rectangle(...);
> cairo_fill(...);
> 
> I see there is a method cairo_set_source_rgb(), but I don't see a corresponding
> getter?

First do cairo_get_source(), followed by cairo_pattern_get_rgba().  If
the latter returns an error, the source is not a solid color (a
gradient, surface, etc).


> Thank you for any pointers.

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