Gtk.Builder.add_from_file

### Method

# Gtk Builderadd_from_file

#### Declaration [src]

    gboolean
    gtk_builder_add_from_file (
      GtkBuilder* builder,
      const char* filename,
      GError** error
    )

#### Description [src]

Parses a file containing a UI definition and merges it with the current contents of `builder`.

This function is useful if you need to call `gtk_builder_set_current_object()`) to add user data to callbacks before loading GtkBuilder UI. Otherwise, you probably want `gtk_builder_new_from_file()` instead.

If an error occurs, 0 will be returned and `error` will be assigned a `GError` from the `GTK_BUILDER_ERROR`, `G_MARKUP_ERROR` or `G_FILE_ERROR` domains.

It’s not really reasonable to attempt to handle failures of this call. You should not use this function with untrusted files (ie: files that are not part of your application). Broken `GtkBuilder` files can easily crash your program, and it’s possible that memory was leaked leading up to the reported failure. The only reasonable thing to do when an error is detected is to call `g_error()`.

#### Parameters

`filename`

  Type: `const char*`

  The name of the file to parse.

  The data is owned by the caller of the method.
  The value is a platform-native string, using the preferred OS encoding on Unix and UTF-8 on Windows.

`error`

  Type: `GError **`

  The return location for a recoverable error.

  The argument can be `NULL`.
  If the return location is not `NULL`, then you must initialize it to a `NULL` `GError*`.
  The argument will be left initialized to `NULL` by the method if there are no errors.
  In case of error, the argument will be set to a newly allocated `GError`; the caller will take ownership of the data, and be responsible for freeing it.

#### Return value

Type: `gboolean`

`TRUE` on success, `FALSE` if an error occurred.