Swift NSImage to CGImage

Lupurus picture Lupurus · Jul 6, 2014 · Viewed 15.1k times · Source

How can I convert a NSImage to CGImage in Swift? In Objective-C I did it like this:

- (CGImageRef)CGImage {
    NSData *imageData = self.TIFFRepresentation;
    CGImageSourceRef source = CGImageSourceCreateWithData((__bridge CFDataRef)imageData, NULL);
    CGImageRef maskRef =  CGImageSourceCreateImageAtIndex(source, 0, NULL);
    return maskRef;
}

Now I tried with:

extension NSImage {
    var CGImage: CGImageRef {
    get {
        let imageData = self.TIFFRepresentation
        let source = CGImageSourceCreateWithData(imageData as CFDataRef, nil)
        let maskRef = CGImageSourceCreateImageAtIndex(source, UInt(0), nil)
        return maskRef;
    }
    }
}

I can't compile, I'm getting the error: Could not find an overload for 'init' that accepts the supplied arguments' at the line let maskRef ...

Answer

az_ picture az_ · Jan 3, 2015

Here's what I'm using to convert NSImage to CGImage:

let image = NSImage(named:"image")
if let image = image {
    var imageRect = CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: image.size.width, height: image.size.height)
    let imageRef = image.cgImage(forProposedRect: &imageRect, context: nil, hints: nil)
}