Constructor

CoglBitmapnew_from_file

Declaration [src]

CoglBitmap*
cogl_bitmap_new_from_file (
  const char* filename,
  GError** error
)

Description [src]

Loads an image file from disk. This function can be safely called from within a thread.

Parameters

filename

Type: const char*

The file to load.

The data is owned by the caller of the function.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.
error

Type: GError **

The return location for a recoverable error.

The argument can be NULL.
If the return location is not NULL, then you must initialize it to a NULL GError*.
The argument will be left initialized to NULL by the constructor if there are no errors.
In case of error, the argument will be set to a newly allocated GError; the caller will take ownership of the data, and be responsible for freeing it.

Return value

Type: CoglBitmap

A CoglBitmap to the new loaded image data, or NULL if loading the image failed.

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