C GTK+ : Copying an image over another one

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Submitted by chantra on Sat, 12/12/2009 - 17:25

GTK+ offers a nice toolkit through the GDK library to make image manipulation quite easy.

This page will go through the process of modifying an image but putting another on on top as an overlay. In this example, we will be copying an MSN icon on top of a "busy" icon.
Another use case could be to watermark images.

Here is the bit of code used in this example, and the result: GTK image overlay

The original file is available in a .tar.gz at the bottom of this article

/**
 * compile with:
 * gcc -Wall -Werror -g -o -DGDK_PIXBUF_DISABLE_DEPRECATED -DGDK_DISABLE_DEPRECATED -DGTK_DISABLE_DEPRECATED -o gtkoverlay gtkoverlay.c `pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0 --libs`
 * Available under GPLv2
 */
 
#define PT_MSN      "images/im-msn.svg"
#define ST_BUSY     "images/empathy-busy.svg"
 
#include <gtk/gtk.h>
 
int
main (int argc, char **argv)
{
  GtkWidget           *window;
  GtkWidget           *img;            /* result img */
  GdkPixbuf           *pixb1, *pixb2;  /* destination, source */
  int                  ls, ss;         /* large size, small size */
 
  gtk_init (&argc, &argv);
 
  window = img = NULL;
  ls = 32;
  ss = 24;
  pixb1 = gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file_at_size (ST_BUSY, ls, ls, NULL);
  pixb2 = gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file_at_size (PT_MSN, ss, ss, NULL);
 
 
  if( !pixb1 || !pixb2 ){
    fprintf (stderr, "Error loading one of the image!\n");
    if( pixb1 ) g_object_unref( G_OBJECT (pixb1) );
    else g_object_unref( G_OBJECT (pixb2) );
    return 1;
  }
 
  gdk_pixbuf_composite( pixb2, pixb1,                  /* src, dst */
                          0, ls - ss,                  /* destx, desty */
                          ss, ss,                      /* destwdth, destheight */
                          0, ls - ss,                  /* offset_x, offset_y */
                          1, 1,                        /* scale_x, scale_y */
                          GDK_INTERP_BILINEAR, 255 );  /* interp_type, overall_alpha */
 
  img = gtk_image_new_from_pixbuf (pixb1);
 
  g_object_unref( G_OBJECT (pixb1) );
  g_object_unref( G_OBJECT (pixb2) );
 
  window = gtk_window_new( GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL );
  gtk_container_add( GTK_CONTAINER (window), img );
  gtk_widget_show_all( window );
  gtk_main();
 
  return 0;
}