gdk:texture-new-from-filename (path)

path -- a pathname or namestring for the file to load, the value is a file system path, using the OS encoding

The newly created gdk:texture object.

Creates a new texture by loading an image from a file. The file format is detected automatically. The supported formats are PNG and JPEG, though more formats might be available.

This function is threadsafe, so that you can, for example, use the g:task object and the g:task-run-in-thread function to avoid blocking the main thread while loading a big image.

Since 4.6