Image API documentation

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Functions for creating image objects.

FUNCTION
image.load()	load image from buffer

CONSTANT
image.TYPE_LUMINANCE	luminance image type
image.TYPE_RGB	RGB image type
image.TYPE_RGBA	RGBA image type

Functions

image.load()

image.load(buffer,[premult])

Load image (PNG or JPEG) from buffer.

PARAMETERS

`buffer`	string image data buffer
`[premult]`	boolean optional flag if alpha should be premultiplied. Defaults to `false`

RETURNS

image

table object or nil if loading fails. The object is a table with the following fields:

number width: image width
number height: image height
constant type: image type
- image.TYPE_RGB
- image.TYPE_RGBA
- image.TYPE_LUMINANCE
string buffer: the raw image data

EXAMPLES

How to load an image from an URL and create a GUI texture from it:

local imgurl = "http://www.site.com/image.png"
http.request(imgurl, "GET", function(self, id, response)
        local img = image.load(response.response)
        local tx = gui.new_texture("image_node", img.width, img.height, img.type, img.buffer)
    end)

Constants

image.TYPE_LUMINANCE

luminance image type

image.TYPE_RGB

RGB image type

image.TYPE_RGBA

RGBA image type