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Re: NSGraphicsContext restore crashes my xtension
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Re: NSGraphicsContext restore crashes my xtension


  • Subject: Re: NSGraphicsContext restore crashes my xtension
  • From: glenn andreas <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 18:09:30 -0500


On Jul 27, 2008, at 4:19 PM, email@hidden wrote:


-------------- Original message ---------------------- From: glenn andreas <email@hidden>

CG is "stateless", in that there is no "current context" (all drawing
to a CGContext requires passing the CGContextRef). NSGraphicsContext,
on the other hand, involves an implicit "current context". If you
change that, you need to change it back - that's what currentContext/
setCurrentContext does. Just because NSGraphicsContext is built on
top of CGContextRef doesn't mean that they have the same semantics
(nor is NSGraphicsContext "just a wrapper" - it does a few more things).


Thanks Glenn.

I'm still confused as to exactly how I should restore or change the context "back to the original" since the original is a CGGraphicsContext. and the only NSGraphicsContext is one I create using the passed in CGGraphicsContext. It seems like a catch-22. I can't draw the text without creating an NSGraphicsContext and I can't restore a calling NSGraphicsContext because the calling context is a CGGraphics context which doesn't work with [NSGraphicsContext setCurrentContext: nsContext];

Any pointers?


If you call [NSGraphicsContext currentContext] before your setCurrentContext:, what do you get back?


Whatever that is, that's the context to restore with a second [NSGraphicsContext setCurrentContext: ] at the end...

Pay no attention to what the CGGraphicsContext is - there is no such thing as a "current" CGGraphicsContext (since CGGraphicsContext routines all take the context as an explicit parameter) - it's only the implicit NSGraphicsContext that matters.



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