How to open PIL Image in Tkinter on Canvas

Question

I can\'t seem to get my PIL Image to work on canvas. Code:

from Tkinter import*
import Image, ImageTk
root = Tk()
root.geometry(\'1000x1000\')
canvas = Canvas(ro         


        

Answer 1

(An old question, but the answers so far are only half-complete.)

Read the docs:

class PIL.ImageTk.PhotoImage(image=None, size=None, **kw)

• image – Either a PIL image, or a mode string. [...]
• file – A filename to load the image from (using Image.open(file)).

So in your example, use

image = ImageTk.PhotoImage(file="ball.gif")

or explicitly

image = ImageTk.PhotoImage(Image("ball.gif"))

(And remember – as you did correctly: Keep a reference to the image object in your Python program, otherwise it is garbage-collected before you seee it.)