Re: Gtk2::Gdk::Pixbuf on win32

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Mar 3, 2008, at 4:51 PM, T.J. Ferraro wrote:

> I have tried using different bmp files. I am confident they are valid
> bitmaps as the same code/images render fine on linux.
>
> When I call $loader = Gtk2::Gdk::PixbufLoader->new_with_mime_type
> ('image/bmp'); I get: Unrecognized image file format
>
> Also just tried png and gif files. And whether calling
> Gtk2::Gdk::Pixbuf::new_from_data or loading a file directly all result
> in the same errors.

Do other gtk+ programs work correctly with loading images on your  
machine?

At this point, if you have the ability, i'd say port your example code  
to C and verify that the C program still can't load the images.

If the C program can't load the images, that means that your gtk+ is  
broken somehow, and the bug report goes to gnome bugzilla.

If the C program can load the images, then something is wrong with  
your setup at runtime.  Are the gdk-pixbuf loader modules being picked  
up correctly?  (I don't know how to tell on windows; on linux i'd use  
strace.)

On further inspection of the gtk+ source, it looks like if there are  
no builtin loader modules, gdk-pixbuf will scan the loader config file  
to get the list spewed back by gdk_pixbuf_get_formats(); but this may  
not reflect whether the modules can actually be loaded.  So there may  
be an issue with the loader module dlls not being in a path that you  
can find at runtime.


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