The gdk-pixbuf Library By Federico Mena Quintero

The gdk-pixbuf Library

By Federico Mena Quintero

API Reference included in this gdk pixbuf library are

• 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 compositing 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 gdk-pixbuf
• 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.

Tools Reference included in this library are

• gdk-pixbuf-csource - C code generation utility for GdkPixbuf images
• gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders - GdkPixbuf loader registration utility

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