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authorMatthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com>2006-03-22 20:33:50 +0000
committerMatthias Clasen <matthiasc@src.gnome.org>2006-03-22 20:33:50 +0000
commit8f069d7bfcbf33ba1aef39d599ab159ba451f4f8 (patch)
tree09b7df36472234f46dc259e5923849dd7f67b46e /gdk-pixbuf
parentfcc18115254024eb03309f0544ad225379745765 (diff)
downloadgtk+-8f069d7bfcbf33ba1aef39d599ab159ba451f4f8.tar.gz
Add some documentation about supported image formats, and how to find out
2006-03-22 Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com> * gdk-pixbuf-loader.c: Add some documentation about supported image formats, and how to find out about them. (#335536, Murray Cumming)
Diffstat (limited to 'gdk-pixbuf')
-rw-r--r--gdk-pixbuf/ChangeLog6
-rw-r--r--gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf-loader.c13
2 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/gdk-pixbuf/ChangeLog b/gdk-pixbuf/ChangeLog
index 1de3ab579a..4c4204e227 100644
--- a/gdk-pixbuf/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdk-pixbuf/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2006-03-22 Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com>
+
+ * gdk-pixbuf-loader.c: Add some documentation about
+ supported image formats, and how to find out about them.
+ (#335536, Murray Cumming)
+
2006-03-20 Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com>
* gdk-pixbuf-animation.c:
diff --git a/gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf-loader.c b/gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf-loader.c
index 90281b074b..460aea1f9b 100644
--- a/gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf-loader.c
+++ b/gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf-loader.c
@@ -547,6 +547,12 @@ gdk_pixbuf_loader_new (void)
* that can't be reliably identified by looking at the data, or if
* the user manually forces a specific type.
*
+ * The list of supported image formats depends on what image loaders
+ * are installed, but typically "png", "jpeg", "gif", "tiff" and
+ * "xpm" are among the supported formats. To obtain the full list of
+ * supported image formats, call gdk_pixbuf_format_get_name() on each
+ * of the #GdkPixbufFormat structs returned by gdk_pixbuf_get_formats().
+ *
* Return value: A newly-created pixbuf loader.
**/
GdkPixbufLoader *
@@ -584,6 +590,13 @@ gdk_pixbuf_loader_new_with_type (const char *image_type,
* that can't be reliably identified by looking at the data, or if
* the user manually forces a specific mime type.
*
+ * The list of supported mime types depends on what image loaders
+ * are installed, but typically "image/png", "image/jpeg", "image/gif",
+ * "image/tiff" and "image/x-xpixmap" are among the supported mime types.
+ * To obtain the full list of supported mime types, call
+ * gdk_pixbuf_format_get_mime_types() on each of the #GdkPixbufFormat
+ * structs returned by gdk_pixbuf_get_formats().
+ *
* Return value: A newly-created pixbuf loader.
* Since: 2.4
**/