Pixbuf.this

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 string

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

Return Value

A newly-created pixbuf

Throws

GException on failure. ConstructionException GTK+ fails to create the object.

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