Re: [Freetype] Freetype design problem?...

[David Turner]

Hi Paul,

"Pedriana, Paul" a écrit :
> 
> Well, after writing some more code, I did notice that
> there is the descriptor field. I imagine I can take
> that field and store a pointer to custom data (in addition
> to storing a FILE* pointer). This seems to me to be
> more or less a satisfactory solution to the problem
> of being able to store custom data in the FT_Stream
> record, as long as nobody but the (replaceable) stream
> IO functions do anything with that data.
> 
The "descriptor" and "pathname" fields of a FT_StreamRec
structure are reserved for implementations and never
used directly by the library.

Actually, they were designed precisely to solve the
problem you're having :-)

Cheers,

- David