I want to create a Pixbuf from SVG data read at compile time. It is easy to load a file at run time, but that means installing the file. Most GTK builder constructors for menus and UIs have a way of using immediate string data, but the GDK Pixbuf appears not to have such a thing – unless I just missed it?
Has any found a way of loading SVG images into a Pixbuf using immediate data from compile time (i.e. a string import of an SVG file)?
On 8/25/18 10:16 PM, Russel Winder wrote:
I want to create a Pixbuf from SVG data read at compile time. It is easy to load a file at run time, but that means installing the file. Most GTK builder constructors for menus and UIs have a way of using immediate string data, but the GDK Pixbuf appears not to have such a thing – unless I just missed it?
Has any found a way of loading SVG images into a Pixbuf using immediate data from compile time (i.e. a string import of an SVG file)?
You have two options to load the SVG form a string:
Using rsvg.Hande:
Handle img = new Handle(cast(ubyte[])yourSVG);
Pixbuf pixbuf = img.getPixbuf();
or use gdkpixbuf.PixbufLoader:
PixbufLoader loader = new PixbufLoader();
loader.write(cast(char[])yourSVG);
loader.close();
Pixbuf pixbuf = loader.getPixbuf();
I had not realised that SVG could be parsed from a char[]. Rather silly of me. The PixbufLoader route seems the right one for me I think – unless I am wrong, :-)
PixbufLoader loader = new PixbufLoader();
I tried gdkpixbuf.PixbufLoader but it seems (in 3.8.3) not to have a this() constructor.
On Sun, 26 Aug 2018 17:38:37 GMT, Russel Winder wrote:
PixbufLoader loader = new PixbufLoader();I tried
gdkpixbuf.PixbufLoaderbut it seems (in 3.8.3) not to have athis()constructor.
Forget this, failure of the wetware to actually read what was wrong.
Now the issue is to get the SVG image sized to a bigger size than the default.
Use setSize on the PixbufLoader before getting the Pixbuf.
Easy really when you read the manual. :-)