[cairo] shading, take 2

[Bill Spitzak]

On Wednesday 03 March 2004 07:21 am, Thomas Hunger wrote:
> some screenshots and a tarball can be found here:
> http://www.iqo.uni-hannover.de/gnome/cairo/

You mentioned the problem with qsort swapping two stops at the same value.

It seems to me that it would be acceptable to require the calling program to 
sort the stops itself and give them in lowest-to-highest order. Most programs 
can easily be written to do this and it avoids the need to even check if 
sorting is necessary in Cairo.

Only problem is what to do if you provide the stops out of order. One idea is 
to say it is undefined (except it should not crash or draw outside the 
region). The other is to say that it acts like it is equal to the previous 
stop. With no additional code this could also force any negative stops to 
zero as well.

If you do want to sort, I think the fact that there are normally a small 
number of stops, and they are very likely to be provided in order, means an 
insertion sort would be fast enough.

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