How to read image data into Tkinter Canvas?

[Frederic Rentsch]

Hi,
Familiarizing myself with Tkinter I'm stuck trying to fill a Canvas
with an image. I believe the class I need is PhotoImage rather than
BitmapImage. But I have no luck with either. The PhotoImage doc lists
available handlers for writing GIF and PPM files. It doesn't say
anything about reading. I would assume that any widely used image format
would activate the appropriate handler automatically. To work with
formats other than GIF and PPM the doc recommends to resort to the Image
module (PIL). This approach also failed.
I did manage to read a GIF file into PhotoImage, which seems to let my
code off the hook. And I have made sure beyond any doubt that my image
files exist and open with PIL.
I must be doing something wrong and will much appreciate any help.

Frederic



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Here's what happens:


First trial with PhotoImage:

.. . .
canvas = Canvas (root)
picture = PhotoImage (file = "/home/fr/temp/wandbild.bmp")
image = canvas.create_image (10, 10, anchor = NW, image = picture)
.. . .

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "tk2.py", line 23, in <module>
picture = PhotoImage (file = "/home/fr/temp/wandbild.bmp")
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 3288, in __init__
Image.__init__(self, 'photo', name, cnf, master, **kw)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 3244, in __init__
self.tk.call(('image', 'create', imgtype, name,) + options)
_tkinter.TclError: couldn't recognize data in image file
"/home/fr/temp/wandbild.bmp"


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Second trial with BitmapImage:

.. . .
picture = BitmapImage (file = "/home/fr/temp/wandbild.bmp")
.. . .

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "tk2.py", line 22, in <module>
picture = BitmapImage (file = "/home/fr/temp/wandbild.bmp")
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 3347, in __init__
Image.__init__(self, 'bitmap', name, cnf, master, **kw)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 3244, in __init__
self.tk.call(('image', 'create', imgtype, name,) + options)
_tkinter.TclError: format error in bitmap data


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Third trial with Image.open:

.. . .
picture = Image.open ("/home/fr/temp/wandbild.bmp")
print picture
image = canvas.create_image (10, 10, anchor = NW, image = picture)
.. . .

<JpegImagePlugin.JpegImageFile image mode=RGB size=963x616 at 0x9A4D84C>
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "tk2.py", line 24, in <module>
image = canvas.create_image (10, 10, anchor = NW, image = picture)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 2159, in
create_image
return self._create('image', args, kw)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 2150, in _create
*(args + self._options(cnf, kw))))
_tkinter.TclError: image "<BmpImagePlugin.BmpImageFile image mode=RGB
size=3933x2355 at 0x9A0D84C>" doesn't exist