Re: [ft-devel] about FreeType manage memory.

[Werner LEMBERG]

Hello Di,


sorry for the late reply.

> I use FreeType to read [a] TTF font and get the image from
> FTC_SBitRec.  Then I copy the data to [the] Alpha channel in 32Bit
> bitmap.
> 
> That means when I finish the copy action, the FTC_SBitRec.buffer is
> not useful.  My question is [whether] I need [to] release the memory
> by myself or [whether] FreeType can do it by itself.

If you call `FTC_Manager_Done', all contained cache nodes are emptied.
`Emptying' also implies the deallocation of all associated (internal)
buffers.  So the answer is that FreeType handles deallocation of cache
buffers by itself.


    Werner