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From: alexande@fillmore.cs.unc.edu (Geoffrey D. Alexander)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Freeing an XFontStruct
Keywords: Xlib, XQueryFont, XFreeFont, XFreeFontInfo
Message-ID: <18159@thorin.cs.unc.edu>
Date: 17 Dec 90 20:29:43 GMT
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I am obtaining an XFontStruct via the following code:

  font_struct=XQueryFont(Xdata->display,XGContextFromGC(Xdata->gc));

After using the data in the XFontStruct, I need to free the XFontStruct.  I
can't use XFreeFont as this also unloads the font.  I've also looked at using
XFreeFontInfo, but it doesn't seem to apply directly.  Looking at the code
for XFreeFontInfo, it seems that XFreeFontInfo(NULL,font_struct,1) will work.
However, I'm not real comfortable with this.  Does anyone know the "proper"
way to free an XFontStruct without unloading the font?

Thanks,
Geoff Alexander
alexande@cs.unc.edu