Pixbuf.newFromFile

gdkpixbuf.pixbuf.Pixbuf newFromFile(string filename)

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

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

Returns

A newly-created pixbuf

Throws

[ErrorWrap]