From: Timothy M. Shead (tshead_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-10-18 09:47:31
Another question / observation on the GIL API. When interfacing with
external code, particularly "C" libraries, it's often necessary to pass
a pointer to the memory managed by an image
(gdk_pixbuf_create_from_raw_data() in my case). So far, I've been using
&image[0]
to get a pointer to memory, but that's pretty ugly, and I'm thinking it
might not work for all cases. Is there a better way to do it? If not,
I'd suggest adding an "image::data()" method that would provide
canonical access to memory. The choice of name is for consistency with
std::basic_string::data().
Cheers,
Tim