[cairo] obtaining last operation extents
Bill Spitzak
spitzak at thefoundry.co.uk
Tue Mar 31 15:32:35 PDT 2009
Vladimir Vukicevic wrote:
> On 3/31/09 11:59 AM, Bill Spitzak wrote:
>> If you call extents() *after* the fill/stroke, then a backend *could*
>> remember the box if it is cheap to do so and then return it on that
>> call. If it is not cheap then it would calculate the box during the call.
>
> Right, except that when you call fill(), the path gets reset, so there's
> nothing to do the calculation with...
You are right. I meant to say something about that but got confused.
I think it might be possible to make all the calls such as fill() not
actually destroy the path, but instead they set a flag so that the next
moveto/lineto/curveto is what destroys the path. This would remove the
need to save/restore to do a fill & stroke, and would allow you to do a
sequence of operations to a path.
Don't know how incompatible this would be, however.
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