Method

GdkPixbufPixbufsave_to_stream

since: 2.14

Declaration [src]

gboolean
gdk_pixbuf_save_to_stream (
  GdkPixbuf* pixbuf,
  GOutputStream* stream,
  const char* type,
  GCancellable* cancellable,
  GError** error,
  ...
)

Description [src]

Saves pixbuf to an output stream.

Supported file formats are currently “jpeg”, “tiff”, “png”, “ico” or “bmp”. See gdk_pixbuf_save_to_buffer() for more details.

The cancellable can be used to abort the operation from another thread. If the operation was cancelled, the error G_IO_ERROR_CANCELLED will be returned. Other possible errors are in the GDK_PIXBUF_ERROR and G_IO_ERROR domains.

The stream is not closed at the end of this call.

Available since: 2.14

This method is not directly available to language bindings.

Parameters

stream

Type: GOutputStream

A GOutputStream to save the pixbuf to.

The data is owned by the caller of the method.

type

Type: const char*

Name of file format.

The data is owned by the caller of the method.

The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

cancellable

Type: GCancellable

Optional GCancellable object, NULL to ignore.

The argument can be NULL.

The data is owned by the caller of the method.

error

Type: GError

Return location for error, or NULL

The argument can be NULL.

The data is owned by the caller of the method.

...

Type:

List of key-value save options.

Return value

Type: gboolean

TRUE if the pixbuf was saved successfully, FALSE if an error was set.