Constructor

GdkPixbuf.PixbufLoader.new_with_type

Declaration [src]

GdkPixbufLoader*
gdk_pixbuf_loader_new_with_type (
  const char* image_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 type image_type, instead of identifying the type automatically.

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

The list of supported image formats depends on what image loaders are installed, but typically “png”, “jpeg”, “gif”, “tiff” and “xpm” are among the supported formats. To obtain the full list of supported image formats, call gdk_pixbuf_format_get_name() on each of the GdkPixbufFormat structs returned by gdk_pixbuf_get_formats().

Parameters

image_type const char*
 

name of the image format to be loaded with the image

 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