[pygtk] pygtk svg image problem...

[Nikos Kouremenos]

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 15:07:22 +0500, Muhammad Ali <ali.jan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I am running python 2.4 with pygtk version 2, 4, 1. I am trying to
> open an svg image in a gtk.Image. I am getting the following error:
> 
> gobject.GError: Couldn't recognize the image file format for file
> 'E:\exp\BlueSphere\1downarrow.svg'
> 
> First I tried with the set_from_file method of Image but it would show
> a broken image icon with on error so then i tried
> pixbuf_new_from_file():
> 
> pic = gtk.gdk.pixbuf_new_from_file(fullname)
> widgets['image'].set_from_pixbuf(pic)
> widgets['image'].show()
> 
> which is now showing me the above error... any ideas as to what the
> problem could be?
AFAIK, you *can't* use svg in gtk.Image atm
you need bindings to rsvg
http://librsvg.sourceforge.net/
Mono has done some work in this area, not sure what python has done
what happend to http://www.daa.com.au/pipermail/pygtk/2003-October/006088.html ?
atm I suggest you just png it via gimp in a large resolution if that's
your problem and you can resize it via gtk to smaller

Reference should say the types a gtkImage support [and in pixbuf]
tutorial says some stuff but says etc..!
tutorial also needs to get a gtk.TRUE/FALSE --> True/False with sed
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