Cogl.Bitmap.new_from_file
Description: Reference for Cogl.Bitmap.new_from_file

### Constructor

# Cogl Bitmapnew_from_file

#### Declaration [src]

    CoglBitmap*
    cogl_bitmap_new_from_file (
      const char* filename,
      GError** error
    )

#### Description [src]

Loads an image file from disk. This function can be safely called from within a thread.

Available since: | 1.0

#### Parameters

`filename` | `const char*`
| The file to load.
| The data is owned by the caller of the function.
| The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.
`error` | `GError **`
| The return location for a `GError*`, or `NULL`.

#### Return value

Returns: | `CoglBitmap`
| A `CoglBitmap` to the new loaded image data, or `NULL` if loading the image failed.
| The caller of the function takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.