CGContext.AsBitmapContext Method
Definition
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Casts the CGContext into a CGBitmapContext.
public CoreGraphics.CGBitmapContext AsBitmapContext ();member this.AsBitmapContext : unit -> CoreGraphics.CGBitmapContextReturns
Remarks
While there are different kinds of CGContext kinds (regular, bitmap and PDF), Apple does not support a way to tell those apart. Certain CGContext objects are actually known to be CGBitmapContext objects in a few situations (calling GetImageFromCurrentImageContext() after creating a context with BeginImageContext(CGSize) or BeginImageContextWithOptions(CGSize, Boolean, nfloat)).
Those are really CGBitmapContext objects and by converting it, application developers can access the various bitmap properties on it.
UIGraphics.BeginImageContextWithOptions (image.Size, false, UIScreen.MainScreen.Scale);
CGBitmapContext effectInContext = UIGraphics.GetCurrentContext ().AsBitmapContext ()
// Now, you can access some interesting properties like "Data", "Width",
// "Height", "BytesPerRow" from the underlying bitmap
var effectInBuffer = new vImageBuffer () {
Data = effectInContext.Data,
Width = effectInContext.Width,
Height = effectInContext.Height,
BytesPerRow = effectInContext.BytesPerRow
};