Swift NSImage to CGImage

Question

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

- (CGImageRef)CGImage {
    NSData *imageData = self.TIFFRepresentation;
         


        

Answer 1

Ah, I found the solution. It's because in Swift you only the an unmanaged object (I just did not really understand, what this means). But this code now works:

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