[cairo] Proposal: cairo_save_state/cairo_restore_state

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at cs.toronto.edu
Tue Jan 24 05:24:53 PST 2006


On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Christian Biesinger wrote:

> Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> > You are right generally, but in this case, since saved states are
> > immutable and cairo_t objects are not threadsafe anyway (cannot
> > be used from two threads at the same time), I don't think any
> > locking is needed, and the semantics I described does the job.
>
> So can a state only be restored to the context from which it was created?

No, definitely not.  That's the beauty of this cairo_state_t
approach compared to cairo_copy I believe.

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