### Method

# Gio File get_child_for_display_name

#### Declaration

    GFile*
    g_file_get_child_for_display_name (
      GFile* file,
      const char* display_name,
      GError** error
    )

#### Description

Gets the child of `file` for a given `display_name` (i.e. a UTF-8 version of the name). If this function fails, it returns `NULL` and `error` will be set. This is very useful when constructing a `GFile` for a new file and the user entered the filename in the user interface, for instance when you select a directory and type a filename in the file selector.

This call does no blocking I/O.

#### Parameters

`display_name`

  Type: `const char*`

  String to a possible child.

  The data is owned by the caller of the method.
  The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

`error`

  Type: `GError **`

  The return location for a recoverable error.

  The argument can be `NULL`.
  If the return location is not `NULL`, then you must initialize it to a `NULL` `GError*`.
  The argument will be left initialized to `NULL` by the method if there are no errors.
  In case of error, the argument will be set to a newly allocated `GError`; the caller will take ownership of the data, and be responsible for freeing it.

#### Return value

Type: `GFile`

A `GFile` to the specified child, or `NULL` if the display name couldn’t be converted. Free the returned object with g_object_unref().

The caller of the method takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.