Function to create Tkinter PhotoImages from directory?

[Kevin Walzer]

I am trying to create a number of Tk PhotoImages from a single
directory. Currently I am hard-coding file names and image names, like so:

def makeImages(self):
self.imagedir = (os.getcwd() + '/images/')
self.folder_new=PhotoImage(file=self.imagedir + 'folder_new.gif')
self.save=PhotoImage(file = self.imagedir + 'save.gif')
self.folder=PhotoImage(file=self.imagedir + 'folder.gif')
self.help=PhotoImage(file=self.imagedir + 'help.gif')
self.fontsmall=PhotoImage(file=self.imagedir + 'fontsmall.gif')
self.stop=PhotoImage(file=self.imagedir + 'stop.gif')

What I'd like to do is glob the directory and create images with the
same name as the gif file, but I can't figure out how to get that to
work. Can anyone help?

 

[James Stroud]

I am trying to create a number of Tk PhotoImages from a single
directory. Currently I am hard-coding file names and image names, like so:

def makeImages(self):
self.imagedir = (os.getcwd() + '/images/')
self.folder_new=PhotoImage(file=self.imagedir + 'folder_new.gif')
self.save=PhotoImage(file = self.imagedir + 'save.gif')
self.folder=PhotoImage(file=self.imagedir + 'folder.gif')
self.help=PhotoImage(file=self.imagedir + 'help.gif')
self.fontsmall=PhotoImage(file=self.imagedir + 'fontsmall.gif')
self.stop=PhotoImage(file=self.imagedir + 'stop.gif')

What I'd like to do is glob the directory and create images with the
same name as the gif file, but I can't figure out how to get that to
work. Can anyone help?

This is platform independent (and untested):

import glob
import os

def makeImages(self):
import glob
import os
self.imagedir = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), 'images')
pattern = os.path.join(self.imagedir, '*.gif')
image_names = glob.glob(pattern)
for name in image_names:
base = os.path.basename(name).split('.')[0]
pathname = os.path.join(self.imagedir, n)
self.setattr(base, Photoimage(file=pathname))

James

 

[James Stroud]

I am trying to create a number of Tk PhotoImages from a single
directory. Currently I am hard-coding file names and image names, like so:

def makeImages(self):
self.imagedir = (os.getcwd() + '/images/')
self.folder_new=PhotoImage(file=self.imagedir + 'folder_new.gif')
self.save=PhotoImage(file = self.imagedir + 'save.gif')
self.folder=PhotoImage(file=self.imagedir + 'folder.gif')
self.help=PhotoImage(file=self.imagedir + 'help.gif')
self.fontsmall=PhotoImage(file=self.imagedir + 'fontsmall.gif')
self.stop=PhotoImage(file=self.imagedir + 'stop.gif')

What I'd like to do is glob the directory and create images with the
same name as the gif file, but I can't figure out how to get that to
work. Can anyone help?

Should be (wrote setattr to fast):


def makeImages(self):
import glob
import os
self.imagedir = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), 'images')
pattern = os.path.join(self.imagedir, '*.gif')
image_names = glob.glob(pattern)
for name in image_names:
base = os.path.basename(name).split('.')[0]
pathname = os.path.join(self.imagedir, n)
setattr(self, base, Photoimage(file=pathname))