Pixbuf.from_file


Description:

[ CCode ( has_construct_function = false ) ]
public Pixbuf.from_file (string filename) throws Error

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

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

Returns:

A newly-created pixbuf