As the user is likely to attach the underlying resources to the device
for automatic collection upon finalization, it is important that the
user data is then destroy last (so that those resources are still
available in the surface and device cleanup routines).
I updated the Free Software Foundation address using the following script.
for i in $(git grep Temple | cut -d: -f1 )
do
sed -e 's/59 Temple Place[, -]* Suite 330, Boston, MA *02111-1307[, ]* USA/51 Franklin Street, Suite 500, Boston, MA 02110-1335, USA/' -i "$i"
done
Fixes http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21356
Damien Carbonne reported that cairo_device_t lacked the language binding
hooks normally associated with cairo objects. So add the missing
get_reference_count, get_user_data and set_user_data.
The device is a generic method for accessing the underlying interface
with the native graphics subsystem, typically the X connection or
perhaps the GL context. By exposing a cairo_device_t on a surface and
its various methods we enable finer control over interoperability with
external interactions of the device by applications. The use case in
mind is, for example, a multi-threaded gstreamer which needs to serialise
its own direct access to the device along with Cairo's across many
threads.
Secondly, the cairo_device_t is a unifying API for the mismash of
backend specific methods for controlling creation of surfaces with
explicit devices and a convenient hook for debugging and introspection.
The principal components of the API are the memory management of:
cairo_device_reference(),
cairo_device_finish() and
cairo_device_destroy();
along with a pair of routines for serialising interaction:
cairo_device_acquire() and
cairo_device_release()
and a method to flush any outstanding accesses:
cairo_device_flush().
The device for a particular surface may be retrieved using:
cairo_surface_get_device().
The device returned is owned by the surface.
