Thanks a bunch! That worked great. No more leaking.
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 4:46 AM, Rob Keniger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I had problems with this too, and I use a workaround I found somewhere
> where you render to a CGImageRef in the context of the current window.
> Here's a dump of the code:
>
> //theImage is an existing NSImage
> CIImage *outputImage = [CIImage imageWithData:[theImage
> TIFFRepresentation]];
>
> //to draw the image processed by Core Image, we need to draw into an
> on-screen graphics context
> //this works around a bug in CIImage where drawing in off-screen
> graphics contexts causes a huge memory leak
>
> //get the current window's graphics context so that we have an on-
> screen context
> //usually we would use any view's window but generically you can just
> ask for the main window
> CIContext *ciContext = [[[NSApp mainWindow] graphicsContext] CIContext];
> if(ciContext == nil)
> {
> NSLog(@"The CIContext of the main window could not be accessed.
> Bailing out of the image creation process.");
> return;
> }
>
> CGAffineTransform transform;
> transform = CGAffineTransformMakeTranslation(0.0,[outputImage
> extent].size.height);
> transform = CGAffineTransformScale(transform, 1.0, -1.0);
> outputImage = [outputImage imageByApplyingTransform:transform];
>
> //render the CIIimage into a CGImageRef in the on-screen context
> CGImageRef cgImage = [ciContext createCGImage:outputImage fromRect:
> [outputImage extent]];
> // Draw the CGImageRef into the current context
> if (cgImage != NULL)
> {
> CGContextDrawImage ([[NSGraphicsContext currentContext]
> graphicsPort], [outputImage extent], cgImage);
> CGImageRelease (cgImage);
> }
>
> HTH
>
> --
> Rob Keniger
>
>
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