GdkPixbuf.Pixbuf.new_from_inline
Description: Reference for GdkPixbuf.Pixbuf.new_from_inline

### Constructor

# GdkPixbuf Pixbufnew_from_inline

#### Declaration [src]

    GdkPixbuf*
    gdk_pixbuf_new_from_inline (
      gint data_length,
      const guint8* data,
      gboolean copy_pixels,
      GError** error
    )

#### Description [src]

Creates a `GdkPixbuf` from a flat representation that is suitable for storing as inline data in a program.

This is useful if you want to ship a program with images, but don’t want to depend on any external files.

GdkPixbuf ships with a program called `gdk-pixbuf-csource`, which allows for conversion of `GdkPixbuf`s into such a inline representation.

In almost all cases, you should pass the `--raw` option to `gdk-pixbuf-csource`. A sample invocation would be:

    gdk-pixbuf-csource --raw --name=myimage_inline myimage.png

For the typical case where the inline pixbuf is read-only static data, you don’t need to copy the pixel data unless you intend to write to it, so you can pass `FALSE` for `copy_pixels`. If you pass `--rle` to `gdk-pixbuf-csource`, a copy will be made even if `copy_pixels` is `FALSE`, so using this option is generally a bad idea.

If you create a pixbuf from const inline data compiled into your program, it’s probably safe to ignore errors and disable length checks, since things will always succeed:

    pixbuf = gdk_pixbuf_new_from_inline (-1, myimage_inline, FALSE, NULL);

For non-const inline data, you could get out of memory. For untrusted inline data located at runtime, you could have corrupt inline data in addition.

Deprecated since: | 2.32
Use `GResource` instead.

#### Parameters

`data_length` | `gint`
| Length in bytes of the `data` argument or -1 to disable length checks.
`data` | An array of `guint8`
| Byte data containing a serialized `GdkPixdata` structure.
| The length of the array is specified in the `data_length` argument.
| The data is owned by the caller of the function.
`copy_pixels` | `gboolean`
| Whether to copy the pixel data, or use direct pointers `data` for the resulting pixbuf.
`error` | `GError **`
| The return location for a `GError*`, or `NULL`.

#### Return value

Returns: | `GdkPixbuf`
| A newly-created pixbuf.
| The caller of the function takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.