[HarfBuzz] How to get hb_face_t and hb_font_t without Freetype?

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 2:23 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu.org> wrote:

>
> But the question about hb_face_t management is still not entirely
> clear.  I don't really need hb_face_t, I only create it as an
> intermediate step towards hb_font_t.  So my question is: once I have
> hb_font_t, can I destroy the hb_face_t I used to create hb_font_t?  If
> not, how do I arrange for hb_face_t to be destroyed when the
> corresponding hb_font_t is destroyed?
>

Yes.  Just destroy anything as soon as you personally don't need it.
Destroy hb_blob_t after you pass it to hb_face_create...(). Destroy
hb_face_t as soon as you pass it to hb_font_create().  HB uses
reference-counting to actually destroy things when they are not used
anymore.
-- 
behdad
http://behdad.org/
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