[cairo] surface information saving with cairo_save
Thomas Hunger
info at teh-web.de
Sun Feb 29 15:34:03 PST 2004
Hi
I wonder if it would make sense to save the current surface matrix of the
gstate->source if source is a pattern whenever one does a cairo_save.
When using cairo_set_pattern the gstate->source (==pattern) is only referenced
and not copied, but the user might expect that the pattern state itself (i.e.
current matrix, repeat and content) is saved, too.
Saving the actual content is a performance killer, since each cairo_save and
cairo_restore would need an entire image-data copy, but saving the surface
matrix (and maybe repeat) should be a simple change in cairo.
just found: cairo_filter_t could also be saved.
Tom
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