I found a solution by creating a new larger Context each time it must be resized. Here's the magic function:
void MPResizeContextWithNewSize(CGContextRef *c, CGSize s) {
size_t bitsPerComponents = CGBitmapContextGetBitsPerComponent(*c);
size_t numberOfComponents = CGBitmapContextGetBitsPerPixel(*c) / bitsPerComponents;
CGContextRef newContext = CGBitmapContextCreate(NULL, s.width, s.height, bitsPerComponents, sizeof(UInt8)*s.width*numberOfComponents,
CGBitmapContextGetColorSpace(*c), CGBitmapContextGetBitmapInfo(*c));
// Copying context content
CGImageRef im = CGBitmapContextCreateImage(*c);
CGContextDrawImage(newContext, CGRectMake(0, 0, CGBitmapContextGetWidth(*c), CGBitmapContextGetHeight(*c)), im);
CGImageRelease(im);
CGContextRelease(*c);
*c = newContext;
}
I wonder if it could be optimized, for example with memcpy
, as suggested here. I tried but it makes my code crash.