Re: Tkinter

"Jay" <first180@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Cold somebody please enlighten me at why code 1 works perfectly and yet
code to will not display the gif file.

code 2
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from Tkinter import *

class App:
def __init__(self, root):
self.MainFrame = Canvas(root)
self.MainFrame.pack(fill=BOTH, expand=1)

BackgroundFile = PhotoImage(file="Background.GIF")
Tank1 = self.MainFrame.create_image(0, 0, image=BackgroundFile)

root = Tk()
app = App(root)
root.mainloop()

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Thanks

you need to keep a reference to the photo object on the Python side
of things, to keep it from being garbage collected.

see the note at the bottom of this page:

http://www.effbot.org/tkinterbook/photoimage.htm

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