cairo/util
Chris Wilson a69335a84e API: map-to-image and create-similar-image
A common requirement is the fast upload of pixel data. In order to
allocate the most appropriate image buffer, we need knowledge of the
destination. The most obvious example is that we could use a
shared-memory region for the image to avoid the transfer cost of
uploading the pixels to the X server. Similarly, gl, win32, quartz...

The other side of the equation is that for manual modification of a
remote surface, it would be more efficient if we can create a similar
image to reduce the transfer costs. This strategy is already followed
for the destination fallbacks and this merely exposes the same
capability for the application fallbacks.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
2011-07-26 14:55:58 +01:00
..
cairo-fdr script: Fix script backend build. 2010-08-10 00:53:53 +03:00
cairo-gobject mesh: Add mesh pattern type and enum values 2011-01-01 13:05:12 +01:00
cairo-script API: map-to-image and create-similar-image 2011-07-26 14:55:58 +01:00
cairo-sphinx script: Fix script backend build. 2010-08-10 00:53:53 +03:00
cairo-trace API: map-to-image and create-similar-image 2011-07-26 14:55:58 +01:00
.gitignore gitignore: refresh 2010-01-22 22:30:43 +00:00
backtrace-symbols.c Update FSF address 2010-04-27 11:13:38 +02:00
cairo-api-update Remove #ifdef munging since we once again support either #if or #ifdef. 2005-05-17 09:13:02 +00:00
cairo-view [util] Fix pangram 2008-12-24 22:29:59 -05:00
cairo.modules build: Remove glitz surface 2010-01-27 09:56:14 +01:00
COPYING Add a COPYING file to each aux. source directory 2008-10-31 16:14:14 +00:00
font-view.c [util] Add font-view 2009-06-02 18:16:48 +01:00
Makefile.am build: Don't build cairo-sphinx when the tee surface is off 2011-06-16 15:11:24 +02:00
malloc-stats.c [utils] Remove unused code 2009-08-10 12:47:37 -04:00
README Fix various README typos 2009-01-02 02:56:38 -05:00
show-edges.c [util] Show total edge length in show-edges 2009-08-29 08:08:31 +01:00
show-events.c Eliminate self-intersecting strokes. 2009-08-29 08:08:28 +01:00
show-traps.c Eliminate self-intersecting strokes. 2009-08-29 08:08:28 +01:00
trace-to-xml.c xml: Port to cairo_device_t 2010-01-22 23:01:50 +00:00
waterfall [util] Add waterfall 2008-12-26 16:38:26 -05:00
xml-to-trace.c Add xml surface 2009-08-29 17:07:34 +01:00
xr2cairo Fixed to not munge some internal cairot names, (such as cairo_traps_*) 2003-07-26 20:38:58 +00:00

Cairo Utilities
===============

There are a varieties of utilities we use with cairo.


backtrace-symbols
-----------------

This is a small shared library designed to be preloaded by the
linker and its purpose is to make the backtrace_symbols() function
of glibc produce more useful source reference information.

Build by:

	make backtrace-symbols.so

and use by:

	LD_PRELOAD=$PWD/backtrace-symbols.so app-to-run

This code should be contributed back to glibc at some point.


malloc-stats
------------

This is a small shared library designed to be preloaded by the
linker and its purpose is to make the malloc_stats() function
of glibc produce more useful information.

Build by:

	make malloc-stats.so

and use by:

	LD_PRELOAD=$PWD/malloc-stats.so app-to-run

This works best when backtrace-symbols is in use.  That is:

	LD_PRELOAD="$PWD/backtrace-symbols.so $PWD/malloc-stats.so" app-to-run


cairo-trace
-----------

This tool can be used to trace all the cairo function calls made by an
applications.  This is useful for either extracting a test case triggering
a bug from an application, or simply to get a general idea of how an
application is using cairo.


cairo-api-update and xr2cairo
-----------------------------

These two scripts were used to convert source code written for pre-1.0
cairo to newer API.  See $(top_srcdir)/PORTING_GUIDE for more information.

These files are obsolete now and may be removed in a future version.


cairo-view and waterfall
------------------------

These are two pycairo scripts useful for testing the toy font backend.