Scale an image in GTK

Question

In GTK, how can I scale an image? Right now I load images with PIL and scale them beforehand, but is there a way to do it with GTK?

Answer 1

Scale image from URL. ( scale reference )

import pygtk
pygtk.require('2.0')
import gtk
import urllib2

class MainWin:

    def destroy(self, widget, data=None):
        print "destroy signal occurred"
        gtk.main_quit()

    def __init__(self):
        self.window = gtk.Window(gtk.WINDOW_TOPLEVEL)
        self.window.connect("destroy", self.destroy)
        self.window.set_border_width(10)
        self.image=gtk.Image()

        self.response=urllib2.urlopen(
            'http://192.168.1.11/video/1024x768.jpeg')

        self.loader=gtk.gdk.PixbufLoader()         
        self.loader.set_size(200, 100)   
        #### works but throwing: glib.GError: Unrecognized image file format       
        self.loader.write(self.response.read())
        self.loader.close()
        self.image.set_from_pixbuf(self.loader.get_pixbuf())

        self.window.add(self.image)
        self.image.show()


        self.window.show()

    def main(self):
        gtk.main()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    MainWin().main()

*EDIT: (work out fix) *

try:
  self.loader=gtk.gdk.PixbufLoader()         
  self.loader.set_size(200, 100)   

            # ignore tihs: 
            #  glib.GError: Unrecognized image file format       

  self.loader.write(self.response.read())
  self.loader.close()
  self.image.set_from_pixbuf(self.loader.get_pixbuf())

except Exception, err:
  print err
  pass