[cairo] Repeatedly drawing the same object
David Björkevik
david at bjorkevik.se
Wed Jun 24 12:02:29 PDT 2009
Adam Richard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm wondering what's the best way to draw a fixed shape many times at
> several different locations on the surface. I don't want a repeated
> pattern filling up an area, as the CAIRO_EXTEND_REPEAT option allows;
> rather, I want to create a "stamp" which I can then use to draw the same
> image many times at various different positions, so that each "stamp" is
> as fast as possible.
(...)
> I notice in the tutorial, where it discusses selecting a source:
>
> http://cairographics.org/tutorial/#L2preparesource
>
> there's a mention of using a surface as a source using
> cairo_push_group() and cairo_pop_group(), and it says you can save a
> source and then select it repeatedly with cairo_set_source. So maybe
> that's the fastest way to do it? I've tried setting the source once and
> then moving its position with translate() on each iteration, but that
> didn't seem to work.
You're on the right track, but try manipulating the pattern matrix
instead, using cairo_pattern_set_matrix.
/David
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