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Re: [ft-devel] FT_Done_MM_Var + FT_Library
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Werner LEMBERG |
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Re: [ft-devel] FT_Done_MM_Var + FT_Library |
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Tue, 03 Jul 2018 23:06:26 +0200 (CEST) |
> Today I played with multiple masters and naturally I came across
> `FT_Done_MM_Var'. I wonder, why I have to set `FT_Library`
> explicitly to deallocate `FT_MM_Var'?
The reason is that...
> On the surface, it would be convenient if `FT_MM_Var' could keep
> track of its library (or face) internally
... it was not possible to add any internal fields to `FT_MM_Var'
since everything contained in it is defined in a public header file,
`ftmm.h'. Consequently, I had to access a structure that contains a
pointer to FreeType's deallocator, and the most natural choice was
`FT_Library'.
Werner