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.

Available since:1.0

Parameters

filename const char*
 

The file to load.
 The data is owned by the caller of the function.
 The string is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.
error GError **
  The return location for a GError*, or NULL.

Return value

Returns: 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.