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load-pixmap

Arguments: pathname &key name pixmap-to-return (icon-index 0) make-unique-name use-gdi-plus

Loads a pixmap (pixel map) from a file and returns a cg:pixmap object. The pixmap can then be drawn by calling copy-to-stream.

The file can be any of the various types of pixmap files that can be loaded by the underlying windowing system (Windows or GTK). On any platform these should include bmp, png, jpg, gif, and tiff files along with others. On Windows, icon files (.ico) can also be loaded.

The arguments are:

See also save-pixmap (which creates .bmp files) and load-lisp-pixmap (which loads a Lisp file which will recreate a pixmap). cg-pixmaps.htm discusses pixmaps in general.

Issue with locad-pixmap and GTM on Macs

There is a known but unsolved problem with load-pixmap on the Mac. On the GTK platforms (Linux and Mac), load-pixmap simply passes the pixmap file path to a single GTK function, and GTK does all the work. But it seems to fail on the Mac even for pixmaps where it works on Linux. We suspect that something in the substrate of GTK on the Mac is not supporting this GTK function properly.

One possible workaround is to create pixmaps from Lisp arrays of pixel values, as described in cg-pixmaps.htm. But note if you're starting with BMP files, the only way to use that approach would be to use the function import-pixmaps on a Linux or Windows machine that is able to load the BMP files, and then take the file of Lisp source code that it writes over to your application on the Mac and load the Lisp file there. When building a standalone application, if you load the Lisp file at build time then the pixmaps will be built into the image file and so will not need to be loaded from separate files at run time.


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Created 2019.8.20.

ToCDocOverviewCGDocRelNotesFAQIndexPermutedIndex
Allegro CL version 10.0
Significantly revised from 9.0.
9.0 version