Constructor

GdkPixbuf.PixbufLoader.new_with_mime_type

Declaration [src]

GdkPixbufLoader*
gdk_pixbuf_loader_new_with_mime_type (
  const char* mime_type,
  GError** error
)

Description [src]

Creates a new pixbuf loader object that always attempts to parse image data as if it were an image of MIME type mime_type, instead of identifying the type automatically.

This function is useful if you want an error if the image isn’t the expected MIME type; for loading image formats that can’t be reliably identified by looking at the data; or if the user manually forces a specific MIME type.

The list of supported mime types depends on what image loaders are installed, but typically “image/png”, “image/jpeg”, “image/gif”, “image/tiff” and “image/x-xpixmap” are among the supported mime types. To obtain the full list of supported mime types, call gdk_pixbuf_format_get_mime_types() on each of the GdkPixbufFormat structs returned by gdk_pixbuf_get_formats().

Available since:2.4

Parameters

mime_type const char*
 

the mime type to be loaded

 The data is owned by the caller of the function
 The string is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string

Return value

Returns: GdkPixbufLoader

A newly-created pixbuf loader.

The caller of the function takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it