Question

I am using webkitgtk+ to get the .ico favicon from a website :

const gchar *uri = webkit_web_view_get_icon_uri(web_view);

as you can see that is a character variable with the .ico image.How can i show it as a pixbuf?Doest gtk support ico images?

Thanks

Answer 1

Using the new GIO API makes this quite easy:

GFile *file;
GFileInputStream *stream;
GdkPixbuf *pb;

/* TODO: Make async, handle errors, etc */
file = g_file_new_for_uri (uri);
stream = g_file_read (file, NULL, NULL);
pb = gdk_pixbuf_new_from_stream ((GInputStream *)stream, NULL, NULL);