[cairo] Notification when a surface gets dirtied

[Alexander Larsson]

On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 12:45 -0600, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Short story:  I'd like to have a way to get notified when a surface gets
> written to.  For example,
> 
>   typedef (* SurfaceModifiedFunc) (cairo_surface_t *surface,
>                                    Rectangle        dirty_rect,
>                                    void            *user_data);
> 
>   void cairo_surface_set_dirty_notify_func (cairo_surface_t    *surface,
>                                             SurfaceModifiedFunc callback,
>                                             void               *user_data);
> 
> Does that make sense?  It's similar in spirit to XDAMAGE, but for Cairo surfaces.

Can you not just draw into a pixmap and actually use XDAMAGE?

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