[cairo] [RFC] Add device_extents api

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Soeren Sandmann <sandmann at daimi.au.dk>wrote:

> If I understand that bug correct, then the damage tracking API that I
> proposed in a different thread may do what you need, and in fact
> possibly allow you to repaint less than the full bounding box of the
> curve.
>

I think it's overkill for this problem. As I understand it, cairo can
already compute the device-space stroke extents; we're just trying to agree
on the right API to expose that data.

I need to have a good look at your proposed damage API. I'm pretty sure that
we wouldn't be able to use it for complete SVG scenes, only one SVG
primitive at a time, since the SVG pointer-events property and other issues
(filters) require per-primitive adjustments to invalidation and hit testing
... so it may not be much win for us beyond the ability to get the extents
of a path or glyph.

Rob
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