[maemo-developers] download and display image, please help.

[From: Thomas Perl]

On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 01:50:52 +0200
"koos vriezen" <koos.vriezen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/10/2 maemo developer <770810dev at gmail.com>:
> > I am new to maemo/gtk/gnome etc. I try to build an application that
> > can run on nokia 770. One simple thing this application needs to do
> > is to download graphic from internet and display the graphic on the
> > device. I got the image by using curl library, now how to display
> > the image? Tried to save the image to a file than display it using
> > set_image_from_file, it worked but very slow. how to display the
> > graphic from image stream in memory directly? gtkhtml can't help
> > right? It doesn't seem able to display image. Thanks.  
> 
> For a start, you can use GdkPixbufLoader to write the data from your
> network stream directly.

In addition, you might decide to use libsoup instead of libcurl, as the
former is GLib-based and might be easier to integrate in your
GTK-based app (i.e. GObject signals to connect to when parts have
finished downloading).


Thomas