IG_fltr_detect

This function detects the format of the image file specified by a filename.

Declaration:

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AT_ERRCOUNT ACCUAPI IG_fltr_detect_file( const LPSTR lpszFileName, LPAT_MODE lpFileType );

Name	Type	Description
lpszFileName	const LPSTR	File name of the image which format you wish to detect.
lpFileType	LPAT_MODE	Pointer to an AT_MODE variable in which the file type will be returned. See enumIGFormats for possible values. If the file format can not be detected, this parameter will return IG_FORMAT_UNKNOWN.

Returns 0 if successful. Otherwise, returns the number of ImageGear errors that occurred during this function call.

This function does not process image pixels.

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AT_ERRCOUNT nErrCount; // will hold returned error count AT_MODE nFormatID; nErrCount = IG_fltr_detect_file("picture.tif", &nFormatID); if(nFormatID == IG_FORMAT_TIF) { // ... }