Re: [NEWBIE] GdkPixbuf loading problem

[Michael Hill <mjh rdasys com>]

On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 15:03, Andrej Kacian wrote:
> Hi world, 
>
> I have a problem loading pixbufs using gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file()
> function. Following code results in segmentation fault: 
>
> /* begin */
> char buf[64]; 
> GdkPixbuf *p; 
> GError **err; 
>
> strcpy(buf, "/tmp/image.png"); 
> p = gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file(buf, err);
    You should be passing a pointer or buf[] by reference as the file name (i.e) gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file(&buf, err);

Cheers,

Michael
> /* end of code */
>
> On the contrary, following code works right as rain: 
>
> /* begin */
> GdkPixbuf *p; 
> GError **err; 
>
> p = \
> gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file(gtk_file_selection_get_filename(GTK_FILE_SELECTION(fsel),\ err);
> /* end of code */
>
> I think I have messed up some of the variable and return values types,
> but I can't seem to solve it by myself.
> Can anybody help/flame me about what am I doing wrong, please?