RE: [ft] FT_Face from memory

[Turner, David]

> Hi!
> 
> Whould anybody prompt to me about following situation.
> I have some font file loaded in memory, for example,
> 
>   unsigned char* buff; /*loaded file*/
>   size_t buffSz;   /*its size*/
>   FT_Face face;
>   ......
> 
> /*then create FT_Face*/
>   FT_New_Memory_Face(Lib,
>                      buff, 
>                      buffSz,
>                      0,
>                      &face);
> /*When I call*/
> FT_Done_Face(face);
> 
> Is this free variable "buff" or not?

No, it doesn't free anything. And you must keep the 'buff'
bytes in memory as long as the FT_Face is alive, since it's
going to reference the data within the memory block directly.

Regards,

- David Turner
- The FreeType Project  (www.freetype.org)


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