Constructor

GdkPixbufPixbufnew_from_file

Declaration [src]

GdkPixbuf*
gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file (
  const char* filename,
  GError** error
)

Description [src]

Creates a new pixbuf by loading an image from a file.

The file format is detected automatically.

If NULL is returned, then error will be set. Possible errors are:

  • the file could not be opened
  • there is no loader for the file’s format
  • there is not enough memory to allocate the image buffer
  • the image buffer contains invalid data

The error domains are GDK_PIXBUF_ERROR and G_FILE_ERROR.

Parameters

filename const char*
 

Name of file to load, in the GLib file name encoding.

 The data is owned by the caller of the function.
 The value is a file system path, using the OS encoding.
error GError **
  The return location for a GError*, or NULL.

Return value

Returns: GdkPixbuf
 

A newly-created pixbuf.

 The caller of the function takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.
 The return value can be NULL.