Constructor

GdkPixbuf.Pixbuf.new_from_file_utf8

Declaration [src]

GdkPixbuf*
gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file_utf8 (
  const char* filename,
  GError** error
)

Description [src]

Same as gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file()

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 string is a file system path, using the OS encoding

Return value

Returns: GdkPixbuf

A newly-created pixbuf with a reference count of 1, or NULL if any of several error conditions occurred: the file could not be opened, there was no loader for the file’s format, there was not enough memory to allocate the image buffer, or the image file contained invalid data.

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