[cairo] destructor callback for image surfaces

Carl Worth cworth at cworth.org
Thu Apr 27 05:47:15 PDT 2006


On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 13:56:52 +0200 (CEST), Helge Bahmann wrote:
> 
> >  cairo_surface_set_user_data (image, &key, image, your_destructor)?
> 
> okay, I missed that function... it allows to achieve what I want to do,
> may I suggest a doc reference from cairo_image_surface_create_for_data to
> cairo_surface_set_user_data, as this appears (to me at least) to be a very
> common use-case?

Seems reasonable enough. I just pushed what's below.

Thanks for the input! (and sorry you had to code/document that whole
function without it getting accepted).

-Carl

commit 09a51a4e037473fc104c788c87730b7e97d9fd26
Author: Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org>
Date:   Thu Apr 27 05:44:57 2006 -0700

    Add reference to cairo_surface_set_user_data in docs. for cairo_image_surface_create_for_data

diff --git a/src/cairo-image-surface.c b/src/cairo-image-surface.c
index cef455b..adf2e7c 100644
--- a/src/cairo-image-surface.c
+++ b/src/cairo-image-surface.c
@@ -271,6 +271,9 @@ _cairo_image_surface_create_with_content
  * This function always returns a valid pointer, but it will return a
  * pointer to a "nil" surface if an error such as out of memory
  * occurs. You can use cairo_surface_status() to check for this.
+ *
+ * See cairo_surface_set_user_data() for a means of attaching a
+ * destroy-notification fallback to the surface if necessary.
  **/
 cairo_surface_t *
 cairo_image_surface_create_for_data (unsigned char     *data,
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