Re: Thread safe?

FROM : glenn andreas
DATE : Sun Mar 30 22:35:16 2008

On Mar 30, 2008, at 3:21 PM, Trygve Inda wrote:

>

>> Or drop down just a step to just use NSBitmapImageRep instead of
>> NSImage which avoids all the caching issues (since you never make an
>> NSImage).  It is very well suited for "pixel level work that is saved
>> in a file" (since you'll need it to do NSBitmapImageRep's
>> representationUsingType: properties: to get the data for a JPG or PNG
>> file anyway).

>
> I am not using NSImage - except to draw an existing file into my 
> premade
> NSBitmapImageRep. Is there a way to draw a jpg into this 
> NSBitmapRep without
> loading the jpg into an NSImage?
>


Yes - NSBitmapImageRep's can be init'ed with NSData (the contents of 
a jpg) and being a subclass of NSImageRep, can be drawn using 
drawAtPoint or drawInRect.