[cairo] Storing vector information for drawing later
Emmanuel Pacaud
emmanuel.pacaud at lapp.in2p3.fr
Thu Nov 26 11:13:05 PST 2009
Hi,
Le jeudi 26 novembre 2009 à 19:33 +0100, Mohit Sindhwani a écrit :
> Mohit Sindhwani wrote:
> > I'm not sure if I can phrase this question correctly, but here goes.
> >
> > We're drawing a number of lines/ shapes as part of an application and a
> > few times a second, we may need to rotate or zoom, etc. the image. So,
> > I was wondering if there's an easy way for us to store a non-raster
> > (i.e. vector) copy of the shape that we are drawing so that when the
> > next turn comes around, we can easily apply the correct transformation
> > to the stored shape and render. I'm not sure how much of a performance
> > improvement it may have, but perhaps someone can guide if this makes any
> > sense at all.
> >
> > Essentially, there's quite a bit of line_to, move_to, etc. that gets
> > called in drawing the shape. Now, I'm wondering if I can collect all of
> > these just before the cairo_stroke or cairo_fill and then reuse that
> > somewhere else after doing a rotate or something.
> >
> > In some senses, I use the preserve API to repeat the same operation with
> > 2 different line widths (a simple way to draw a thick line with a
> > border), but just wondering if there's something more complex that I can
> > use. Do paths offer this functionality?
> Just bumping this topic, to see if anyone has any insight or links for me :)
The current development snapshot (1.9.2) exports the cairo-meta-surface,
that can be used for vector operation recording.
It will be renamed to cairo-recording-surface in the next stable version
(which is already done in cairo git master branch).
Emmanuel.
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