<div dir="ltr">arto,<br><br>have you considered caching the downloaded file to disk and reading from there using the standard function?<br><br>This would give you the obvious benefit of allowing offline usage and faster requerying.<br>
There isn't an infinite amount of memory available and having to download images everytime could cause user angst.<br><br>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?)<br>
<br>Even though it may require a little bit more time to organise a cache file plan, it may be worth it in the end?<br><br>Gary (lcuk on #maemo)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Arto Karppinen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arto.karppinen@mail.suomi.net">arto.karppinen@mail.suomi.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Hi, were developing an application which is supposed to show user images<br>
downloaded from web server using xmlrpc. The problem is that we cant<br>
quite figure out how to create a pixbuf from a buffer which contains the<br>
RAW contents of a file.<br>
<br>
Functions like:<br>
<br>
gdk_pixbuf_new_from_data<br>
gdk_pixbuf_new_from_inline<br>
gdk_pixbuf_from_pixdata<br>
<br>
all seem to expect the image to be in some particular format already,<br>
while what we need is more like gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file() which is able<br>
to autodetect everything and just read the file.<br>
<br>
All information that our application has about the image are:<br>
- Name of file.<br>
- Size of file.<br>
- Contents of file.<br>
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