Hi. I've been hunting around trying to find a way of drawing text to
context so that I can then retrieve the image data as an array of
bytes. I would like to support OSX 10.4, so my original (working code)
won't do. Unfortunately though, I'm getting zeros for data, probably
from totally misinterpreting how to use the libs.

I currently have.

unsigned char* bitmapData = new unsigned char[width * height * depth];
memset(bitmapData, 0, width*height*data);
                
NSBitmapImageRep* rep = [[[NSBitmapImageRep alloc]
                                                                  
initWithBitmapDataPlanes:&bitmapData  // Single plane; just
our bitmapData
                                                                  
pixelsWide:width
                                                                  
pixelsHigh:height
                                                                  
bitsPerSample:8
                                                                  
samplesPerPixel:4  // ARGB
                                                                  hasAlpha:YES
                                                                  isPlanar:NO
                                                                  
colorSpaceName:NSCalibratedRGBColorSpace
                                                                  bytesPerRow:0 
 // Let it compute bytesPerRow and bitsPerPixel
                                                                  
bitsPerPixel:0] autorelease];
                
                
[NSGraphicsContext saveGraphicsState];
NSGraphicsContext* context = [NSGraphicsContext
graphicsContextWithBitmapImageRep:rep];
[NSGraphicsContext setCurrentContext:context];

NSPoint point;
point.x = 0;
point.y = 0;
                
[nsString drawAtPoint:point withAttributes:nsAttributes];
                
[NSGraphicsContext restoreGraphicsState];
                
unsigned char *returnData = [rep bitmapData];


What I'm expecting is the drawAtPoint method to draw nsString inside
the bitmapRep of the NSContext at which point I can retrieve the raw
data  and do something with it. On account of the data all being zero,
I'm obviously doing something wrong and would really appreciate some
advice.

Cheers.
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