## Offscreen Buffers (Deprecated) Offscreen Buffers (Deprecated) |

## Synopsis

    void *              cogl_offscreen_ref                  (void *offscreen);
    void                cogl_offscreen_unref                (void *offscreen);

## Description

## Details

### cogl_offscreen_ref ()

    void *              cogl_offscreen_ref                  (void *offscreen);

### Warning

`cogl_offscreen_ref` has been deprecated since version 1.2 and should not be used in newly-written code. `cogl_object_ref()` should be used in new code.

Increments the reference count on the `offscreen` framebuffer.

`offscreen` : | A pointer to a CoglOffscreen framebuffer
Returns : | For convenience it returns the given `offscreen`. [transfer none]

### cogl_offscreen_unref ()

    void                cogl_offscreen_unref                (void *offscreen);

### Warning

`cogl_offscreen_unref` has been deprecated since version 1.2 and should not be used in newly-written code. `cogl_object_unref()` should be used in new code.

Decreases the reference count for the `offscreen` buffer and frees it when the count reaches 0.

`offscreen` : | A pointer to a CoglOffscreen framebuffer