Re: How to convert a jpg image to a GtkImage ?

[David Nečas (Yeti) <yeti physics muni cz>]

On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 06:30:02PM +0800, Gregory Hosler wrote:
> This works fine, but now I have a concern as regards to memory leak.
> ...
>
> The reason for new'ing a new loader each time is that, from the documentation,
> it appears that once I "loader_close()", I can no longer write to the loader,
> and it is not clear that I can do sequential loader writes's followed by
> loader_get_pixbuf's, thereby reusing the same (original) loader.
>
> I also am not seeing a convenient way to destroy the loader. (it does happen to
> have a finalize routine, but I'm not sure how to invoke it :)

GdkPixbufLoader is a GObject, you get rid of it as of
anything else: by releasing the last reference with
g_object_unref().

>       reusing the loader (if possible).

This is not possible (the loader is tied to its pixbuf).

Yeti

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