[maemo-developers] GtkPixbuf from Char buffer

[From: gary liquid]

arto,

have you considered caching the downloaded file to disk and reading from
there using the standard function?

This would give you the obvious benefit of allowing offline usage and faster
requerying.
There isn't an infinite amount of memory available and having to download
images everytime could cause user angst.

I believe /tmp is mapped to real memory and not the flash drive, so would
not cause real problems and wouldn't be much slower  (someone can confirm
this?)

Even though it may require a little bit more time to organise a cache file
plan, it may be worth it in the end?

Gary (lcuk on #maemo)

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Arto Karppinen <
arto.karppinen at mail.suomi.net> wrote:

>
> Hi, were developing an application which is supposed to show user images
> downloaded from web server using xmlrpc. The problem is that we cant
> quite figure out how to create a pixbuf from a buffer which contains the
> RAW contents of a file.
>
> Functions like:
>
>    gdk_pixbuf_new_from_data
>    gdk_pixbuf_new_from_inline
>    gdk_pixbuf_from_pixdata
>
> all seem to expect the image to be in some particular format already,
> while what we need is more like gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file() which is able
> to autodetect everything and just read the file.
>
> All information that our application has about the image are:
>  - Name of file.
>  - Size of file.
>  - Contents of file.
>
> --
> Arto Karppinen
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