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noobprogrammer
noobprogrammer

Reputation: 153

Tkinter image blank (without PIL)

I am making an animated presentation and I want to add an image to it, but I can't use PIL because it will be presented at school, where PIL isn't installed, so I used the method given by the website http://effbot.org/pyfaq/why-do-my-tkinter-images-not-appear.htm, but it doesn't work - my slide is still blank. What should I do?

Here is my code (copied almost completely from the website - did I miss something out?):

photo = PhotoImage('Alveoli.png')
label = Label(image=photo)
label.image = photo # keep a reference!
label.pack()

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1324

Answers (1)

Lone Lunatic
Lone Lunatic

Reputation: 835

You can not open .png files without using an external image library. Since PIL isn't available I'd think other similar libraries aren't either.

EDIT: Note: PNG files are supported for tkinter v8.6+.

The only possibility that comes to mind is converting the image to another, compatible format like GIF or PGM

If you have the image in one of those formats you can simply add them. It worked just fine for me with this code:

from tkinter import *

root = Tk()

photo = PhotoImage(file="img.ppm")

img = Label(root, image=photo)
img.image = photo
img.place(x=0, y=0)

root.mainloop()

Upvotes: 3

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