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Nathan Chan
Nathan Chan

Reputation: 49

Best Way to Create Multiple Tkinter Canvas Images?

In my program, I am creating many images on the canvas, however, I feel that the way I am currently doing it is inefficient and repetitive. Here is the basic structure of the program:

import tkinter as tk
from PIL import Image, ImageTk

CANVAS_IMG = ['image1', 'image2', 'image3', 'image4']

class MyApp:
    def __init__(self, parent):
        self.parent = parent
        self.canvas_img = {item: ImageTk.PhotoImage(file=f'img/{item}.png') for item in CANVAS_IMG}

        self.canvas.create_image(485, 370, image=self.canvas_img['image1'])
        self.canvas.create_image(490, 360, image=self.canvas_img['image2'])
        self.canvas.create_image(350, 55, image=self.canvas_img['image3'])
        self.canvas.create_image(720, 375, image=self.canvas_img['image4'])

if __name__ == '__main__':
    root = tk.Tk()
    MyApp(root)
    root.mainloop()

The coordinates of the images don't follow any kind of pattern.

I have thought about creating a list of tuples to store the coordinates for the images, but that seems kind of clunky. What would you recommend as the best way to do this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1341

Answers (1)

Bryan Oakley
Bryan Oakley

Reputation: 385970

One way would be to create a dictionary where the keys are the image names and the values are the coordinates:

IMAGE_DATA = {
    "image1": (485, 370),
    "image2": (490, 360),
    ...
}

You can then easily loop over the dictionary to create the images.

Upvotes: 2

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