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

## Synopsis

    CoglHandle          cogl_offscreen_ref                  (CoglHandle handle);
    void                cogl_offscreen_unref                (CoglHandle handle);

## Description

## Details

### cogl_offscreen_ref ()

    CoglHandle          cogl_offscreen_ref                  (CoglHandle handle);

### Warning

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

Increments the reference count on the offscreen buffer.

`handle` : | A CoglHandle for an offscreen buffer
Returns : | For convenience it returns the given CoglHandle. [transfer none]

### cogl_offscreen_unref ()

    void                cogl_offscreen_unref                (CoglHandle handle);

### Warning

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

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

`handle` : | A CoglHandle for an offscreen buffer