[cairo] Can I tell if cairo_image_surface_create_with_data() was called?

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at behdad.org
Tue Sep 16 21:04:49 PDT 2008


Bill Spitzak wrote:
> Is there a way to tell if a cairo_surface_t was created with 
> cairo_image_surface_create_with_data() as opposed to 
> cairo_image_surface_create()? Basically I want to know whether it owns 
> the data.
> 
> It must know this because the destructor needs to know it so it can free 
> the data.

You can schedule a free using the user_data mechanism.

behdad

> This call would be somewhat useful and it would keep with the idea of 
> being able to query all the arguments passed to constructors for all 
> Cairo objects.


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