Re: [Devel] Getting original stream for an FT_Face?

[David Turner]

Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
> As far as I can tell, there is no way to get the data and/or stream that 
> was read to build an FT_Face.  Once it's loaded, the stream goes away :(.
Well, the stream doesn't disappear (it is only closed when FT_Done_Face 
is called). However, it is not available to client applications, and 
this is purely by design !

This allows things like using several files to build a single FT_Face
(e.g. FT_New_Face + FT_Attach_File)

> I'd like to avoid re-reading/streaming the data, in favor of keeping it 
> in memory longer.  Do I need to maintain my own wrappers for this or can 
> FT be easily extended to "cache" the stream?
What do you need to do exactly ? Can't you do that by using a custom 
stream instead ?

Regards,

- David Turner
- The FreeType Project  (www.freetype.org)


> Leonard