Constructor

GdkPixbuf.Pixbuf.new_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

 Ownership is not transferred to the callee
 The string is a file system path, using the OS encoding

Return value

Returns: GdkPixbuf

A newly-created pixbuf

Ownership of the data is transferred to the caller
Can be NULL