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IMG_LoadGIFAnimation_IO(3) SDL_image3 FUNCTIONS IMG_LoadGIFAnimation_IO(3)

IMG_LoadGIFAnimation_IO - Load a GIF animation directly.

Defined in SDL3_image/SDL_image.h

#include "SDL3_image/SDL_image.h"
IMG_Animation * IMG_LoadGIFAnimation_IO(SDL_IOStream *src);

If you know you definitely have a GIF image, you can call this function, which will skip SDL_image's file format detection routines. Generally it's better to use the abstract interfaces; also, there is only an SDL_IOStream interface available here.

an SDL_IOStream that data will be read from.

( IMG_Animation
*) Returns a new

IMG_Animation , or NULL on error.

This function is available since SDL_image 3.0.0.

(3), IMG_LoadAnimation(3), (3), IMG_LoadAnimation_IO(3), (3), IMG_LoadAnimationTyped_IO(3), (3), IMG_FreeAnimation(3)

SDL_image 3.2.4 SDL_image