API Reference

Table of Contents

Initialization and Versions — Library version numbers.

The GdkPixbuf Structure — Information that describes an image.

Reference Counting and Memory Mangement — Functions for reference counting and memory management on pixbufs.

File Loading — Loading a pixbuf from a file.

File saving — Saving a pixbuf to a file.

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

Inline data — Functions for inlined pixbuf handling.

Scaling — Scaling pixbufs and scaling and alpha blending pixbufs

Rendering — Rendering a pixbuf to a GDK drawable.

Drawables to Pixbufs — Getting parts of a GDK drawable's image data into a pixbuf.

Utilities — Utility and miscellaneous convenience functions.

Animations — Animated images.

GdkPixbufLoader — Application-driven progressive image loading.

Module Interface — Extending GdkPixBuf

gdk-pixbuf Xlib initialization — Initializing the gdk-pixbuf Xlib library.

Xlib Rendering — Rendering a pixbuf to an X drawable.

X Drawables to Pixbufs — Getting parts of an X drawable's image data into a pixbuf.

XlibRGB — Rendering RGB buffers to X drawables.