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[Vladimiros Papaditsas]

Hello,

I have found some port attempts of freetype2 for .NET and I try to set up a working project of mine. My intention is to read the bytes of a generated glyph's buffer. The problem is that when I try to create a .NET Bitmap objects from these bytes I always get exceptions or garbage no matter what alternatives I have used. With freetype I have tried two approaches :

Init_Freetype();

New_Face();

Set_Pixel_Sizes();

Get_Char_Index();

Load_Glyph();

Render_Glyph();

And then from the GlyphSlotRec structure that Render_Glyph() saves, I try to read bitmap.buffer. My second approach is the following :

Init_Freetype();

New_Face();

Set_Pixel_Sizes();

Get_Char_Index();

Load_Glyph()

Get_Glyph();

Glyph_To_Bitmap();

And then with a typecast I get a Bitmap_Glyph structure object. 

All the methods I mentioned above return 0 so there are no errors. And the typecast seems ok. Obviously there is something wrong when i try to access the bytes of the generated glyph like this :

glyph.bitmap.buffer. 

The way I try to read the buffer is by copying the bytes starting at the memory location of the buffer ranging until glyph.bitmap.width * glyph.bitmap.rows.

Any suggestions or hints?

Thanks,

Vlad