How to convert a jpg image to a GtkImage ?

[Gregory Hosler <ghosler redhat com>]

Hi all,

I have an application, that amoung other things, is receiving a jpg file
from a network connection. Once that file is in memory (it's relatively
small), I wish to load it into a GtkImage (so that I can display it,
e.g. by adding the GtkImage to a vbox, or something like that).

I've been thru the Dev Help pages, and I have some questions:

1) If the image were in an actual file, I could load it e.g. with
   gtk_image_new_from_file(). It's not intuitive to me which
   function to use to load my in memory file into a GtkImage,
   and I am reluctant to save the image to a file, just to load it,
   and then delete the file...

2) I'm seeing the following fnctions, and, well, I'm confused.

        I see GtkImage & the related gtk_image functions.
        I see GdkPixbuf & the related gdk_pixbuf functions.
        I see GtkPixmap & the related gtk_pixmap functions.

   When do I use which ?

(and in order to display my jpg image in a v/h-box, is GtkImage really
the proper widget to use ?)

Many thanks in advance,

-Greg

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