ref: 5b7fbb44e0ef56cef182b1282279928b4cd45179
parent: 7b02b7044321b1771b73465dd5c59b372906f8c4
author: Werner Lemberg <[email protected]>
date: Fri Jan 27 15:51:27 EST 2012
Minor documentation improvements regarding threads and faces.
--- a/include/freetype/freetype.h
+++ b/include/freetype/freetype.h
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
/* */
/* FreeType high-level API and common types (specification only). */
/* */
-/* Copyright 1996-2011 by */
+/* Copyright 1996-2012 by */
/* David Turner, Robert Wilhelm, and Werner Lemberg. */
/* */
/* This file is part of the FreeType project, and may only be used, */
@@ -1668,6 +1668,9 @@
/* use @FT_New_Library instead, followed by a call to */
/* @FT_Add_Default_Modules (or a series of calls to @FT_Add_Module). */
/* */
+ /* For multi-threading applications each thread should have its own */
+ /* FT_Library object. */
+ /* */
FT_EXPORT( FT_Error )
FT_Init_FreeType( FT_Library *alibrary );
@@ -1952,6 +1955,10 @@
/* */
/* Each new face object created with this function also owns a */
/* default @FT_Size object, accessible as `face->size'. */
+ /* */
+ /* One @FT_Library instance can have multiple face objects, this is, */
+ /* @FT_Open_Face and its siblings can be called multiple times using */
+ /* the same `library' argument. */
/* */
/* See the discussion of reference counters in the description of */
/* @FT_Reference_Face. */