Image Data in Memory

Image Data in Memory — Creating a pixbuf from image data that is already in memory.

Includes

#include <gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf.h>

Description

The most basic way to create a pixbuf is to wrap an existing pixel buffer with a GdkPixbuf structure. You can use the gdk_pixbuf_new_from_data() function to do this You need to specify the destroy notification function that will be called when the data buffer needs to be freed; this will happen when a GdkPixbuf is finalized by the reference counting functions If you have a chunk of static data compiled into your application, you can pass in NULL as the destroy notification function so that the data will not be freed.

The gdk_pixbuf_new() function can be used as a convenience to create a pixbuf with an empty buffer. This is equivalent to allocating a data buffer using malloc() and then wrapping it with gdk_pixbuf_new_from_data(). The gdk_pixbuf_new() function will compute an optimal rowstride so that rendering can be performed with an efficient algorithm.

As a special case, you can use the gdk_pixbuf_new_from_xpm_data() function to create a pixbuf from inline XPM image data.

You can also copy an existing pixbuf with the gdk_pixbuf_copy() function. This is not the same as just doing a g_object_ref() on the old pixbuf; the copy function will actually duplicate the pixel data in memory and create a new GdkPixbuf structure for it.

Functions

gdk_pixbuf_new ()

GdkPixbuf *
gdk_pixbuf_new (GdkColorspace colorspace,
                gboolean has_alpha,
                int bits_per_sample,
                int width,
                int height);

Creates a new GdkPixbuf structure and allocates a buffer for it. The buffer has an optimal rowstride. Note that the buffer is not cleared; you will have to fill it completely yourself.

Parameters

colorspace

Color space for image

 

has_alpha

Whether the image should have transparency information

 

bits_per_sample

Number of bits per color sample

 

width

Width of image in pixels, must be > 0

 

height

Height of image in pixels, must be > 0

 

Returns

A newly-created GdkPixbuf with a reference count of 1, or NULL if not enough memory could be allocated for the image buffer.


gdk_pixbuf_new_from_bytes ()

GdkPixbuf *
gdk_pixbuf_new_from_bytes (GBytes *data,
                           GdkColorspace colorspace,
                           gboolean has_alpha,
                           int bits_per_sample,
                           int width,
                           int height,
                           int rowstride);

Creates a new GdkPixbuf out of in-memory readonly image data. Currently only RGB images with 8 bits per sample are supported. This is the GBytes variant of gdk_pixbuf_new_from_data().

Parameters

data

Image data in 8-bit/sample packed format inside a GBytes

 

colorspace

Colorspace for the image data

 

has_alpha

Whether the data has an opacity channel

 

bits_per_sample

Number of bits per sample

 

width

Width of the image in pixels, must be > 0

 

height

Height of the image in pixels, must be > 0

 

rowstride

Distance in bytes between row starts

 

Returns

A newly-created GdkPixbuf structure with a reference count of 1.

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Since: 2.32


gdk_pixbuf_new_from_data ()

GdkPixbuf *
gdk_pixbuf_new_from_data (const guchar *data,
                          GdkColorspace colorspace,
                          gboolean has_alpha,
                          int bits_per_sample,
                          int width,
                          int height,
                          int rowstride,
                          GdkPixbufDestroyNotify destroy_fn,
                          gpointer destroy_fn_data);

Creates a new GdkPixbuf out of in-memory image data. Currently only RGB images with 8 bits per sample are supported.

Since you are providing a pre-allocated pixel buffer, you must also specify a way to free that data. This is done with a function of type GdkPixbufDestroyNotify. When a pixbuf created with is finalized, your destroy notification function will be called, and it is its responsibility to free the pixel array.

See also gdk_pixbuf_new_from_bytes().

Parameters

data

Image data in 8-bit/sample packed format.

[array]

colorspace

Colorspace for the image data

 

has_alpha

Whether the data has an opacity channel

 

bits_per_sample

Number of bits per sample

 

width

Width of the image in pixels, must be > 0

 

height

Height of the image in pixels, must be > 0

 

rowstride

Distance in bytes between row starts

 

destroy_fn

Function used to free the data when the pixbuf's reference count drops to zero, or NULL if the data should not be freed.

[scope async][allow-none]

destroy_fn_data

Closure data to pass to the destroy notification function.

[closure]

Returns

A newly-created GdkPixbuf structure with a reference count of 1.

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gdk_pixbuf_new_from_xpm_data ()

GdkPixbuf *
gdk_pixbuf_new_from_xpm_data (const char **data);

Creates a new pixbuf by parsing XPM data in memory. This data is commonly the result of including an XPM file into a program's C source.

Parameters

data

Pointer to inline XPM data.

[array zero-terminated=1]

Returns

A newly-created pixbuf with a reference count of 1.


gdk_pixbuf_new_from_inline ()

GdkPixbuf *
gdk_pixbuf_new_from_inline (gint data_length,
                            const guint8 *data,
                            gboolean copy_pixels,
                            GError **error);

gdk_pixbuf_new_from_inline has been deprecated since version 2.32 and should not be used in newly-written code.

Use GResource instead.

Create a GdkPixbuf from a flat representation that is suitable for storing as inline data in a program. This is useful if you want to ship a program with images, but don't want to depend on any external files.

gdk-pixbuf ships with a program called gdk-pixbuf-csource, which allows for conversion of GdkPixbufs into such a inline representation. In almost all cases, you should pass the --raw option to gdk-pixbuf-csource. A sample invocation would be:

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gdk-pixbuf-csource --raw --name=myimage_inline myimage.png

For the typical case where the inline pixbuf is read-only static data, you don't need to copy the pixel data unless you intend to write to it, so you can pass FALSE for copy_pixels . (If you pass --rle to gdk-pixbuf-csource, a copy will be made even if copy_pixels is FALSE, so using this option is generally a bad idea.)

If you create a pixbuf from const inline data compiled into your program, it's probably safe to ignore errors and disable length checks, since things will always succeed:

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pixbuf = gdk_pixbuf_new_from_inline (-1, myimage_inline, FALSE, NULL);

For non-const inline data, you could get out of memory. For untrusted inline data located at runtime, you could have corrupt inline data in addition.

Parameters

data_length

Length in bytes of the data argument or -1 to disable length checks

 

data

Byte data containing a serialized GdkPixdata structure.

[array length=data_length]

copy_pixels

Whether to copy the pixel data, or use direct pointers data for the resulting pixbuf

 

error

GError return location, may be NULL to ignore errors

 

Returns

A newly-created GdkPixbuf structure with a reference, count of 1, or NULL if an error occurred.


gdk_pixbuf_new_subpixbuf ()

GdkPixbuf *
gdk_pixbuf_new_subpixbuf (GdkPixbuf *src_pixbuf,
                          int src_x,
                          int src_y,
                          int width,
                          int height);

Creates a new pixbuf which represents a sub-region of src_pixbuf . The new pixbuf shares its pixels with the original pixbuf, so writing to one affects both. The new pixbuf holds a reference to src_pixbuf , so src_pixbuf will not be finalized until the new pixbuf is finalized.

Note that if src_pixbuf is read-only, this function will force it to be mutable.

Parameters

src_pixbuf

a GdkPixbuf

 

src_x

X coord in src_pixbuf

 

src_y

Y coord in src_pixbuf

 

width

width of region in src_pixbuf

 

height

height of region in src_pixbuf

 

Returns

a new pixbuf.

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gdk_pixbuf_copy ()

GdkPixbuf *
gdk_pixbuf_copy (const GdkPixbuf *pixbuf);

Creates a new GdkPixbuf with a copy of the information in the specified pixbuf . Note that this does not copy the options set on the original GdkPixbuf, use gdk_pixbuf_copy_options() for this.

Parameters

pixbuf

A pixbuf.

 

Returns

A newly-created pixbuf with a reference count of 1, or NULL if not enough memory could be allocated.

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Types and Values

See Also

gdk_pixbuf_finalize().