imageSurfaceCreate

fncairo.surface.Surface imageSurfaceCreate(cairo.types.Format format, int width, int height)

Creates an image surface of the specified format and dimensions. Initially the surface contents are set to 0. (Specifically, within each pixel, each color or alpha channel belonging to format will be 0. The contents of bits within a pixel, but not belonging to the given format are undefined).

Parameters

formatformat of pixels in the surface to create
widthwidth of the surface, in pixels
heightheight of the surface, in pixels

Returns

a pointer to the newly created surface. The caller

owns the surface and should call [cairo.surface.Surface.destroy] when done with it.

This function always returns a valid pointer, but it will return a pointer to a "nil" surface if an error such as out of memory occurs. You can use [cairo.surface.Surface.status] to check for this.