## Bitmaps Bitmaps — Functions for loading images |

## Functions

CoglBitmap * | cogl_bitmap_new_from_file ()
CoglBool | cogl_bitmap_get_size_from_file ()
CoglBool | cogl_is_bitmap ()

## Types and Values

| CoglBitmap
enum | CoglBitmapError
#define | COGL_BITMAP_ERROR

## Description

Cogl allows loading image data into memory as CoglBitmaps without loading them immediately into GPU textures.

CoglBitmap is available since Cogl 1.0

## Functions

### cogl_bitmap_new_from_file ()

    CoglBitmap *
    cogl_bitmap_new_from_file (const char *filename,
                               CoglError **error);

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

#### Parameters

filename | the file to load. |
error | a CoglError or `NULL`. |

#### Returns

a CoglBitmap to the new loaded image data, or `NULL` if loading the image failed.

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Since: 1.0

### cogl_bitmap_get_size_from_file ()

    CoglBool
    cogl_bitmap_get_size_from_file (const char *filename,
                                    int *width,
                                    int *height);

Parses an image file enough to extract the width and height of the bitmap.

#### Parameters

filename | the file to check |
width | return location for the bitmap width, or `NULL`. | [out]
height | return location for the bitmap height, or `NULL`. | [out]

#### Returns

`TRUE` if the image was successfully parsed

Since: 1.0

### cogl_is_bitmap ()

    CoglBool
    cogl_is_bitmap (void *object);

Checks whether `object` is a CoglBitmap

#### Parameters

object | a CoglObject pointer |

#### Returns

`TRUE` if the passed `object` represents a bitmap, and `FALSE` otherwise

Since: 1.0

## Types and Values

### CoglBitmap

    typedef struct _CoglBitmap CoglBitmap;

### enum CoglBitmapError

Error codes that can be thrown when performing bitmap operations. Note that `gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file()` can also throw errors directly from the underlying image loading library. For example, if GdkPixbuf is used then errors GdkPixbufErrors will be used directly.

#### Members

COGL_BITMAP_ERROR_FAILED | Generic failure code, something went wrong. |
COGL_BITMAP_ERROR_UNKNOWN_TYPE | Unknown image type. |
COGL_BITMAP_ERROR_CORRUPT_IMAGE | An image file was broken somehow. |

Since: 1.4

### COGL_BITMAP_ERROR

    #define COGL_BITMAP_ERROR (cogl_bitmap_error_quark ())

CoglError domain for bitmap errors.

Since: 1.4