I've spent some time looking online and so far haven't found anything that answers this without using PIL, which i can't get to work is there another way to do this simply?
tkinter has a PhotoImage class which can be used to display GIF images. If you want other formats (other than the rather outdated PGM/PPM formats) you'll need to use something like PIL or Pillow.
import Tkinter as tk
root = tk.Tk()
image = tk.PhotoImage(file="myfile.gif")
label = tk.Label(image=image)
label.pack()
root.mainloop()
It's important to note that if you move this code into a function, you may have problems. The above code works because it runs in the global scope. With a function the image object may get garbage-collected when the function exits, which will cause the label to appear blank.
There's an easy workaround (save a persistent reference to the image object), but the point of the above code is to show the simplest code possible.
For more information see this web page: Why do my Tkinter images not appear?
You can use PIL library which available for python 3.
First, you need to install PIL using this command (using pip):
pip install pillow
then:
`from tkinter import *`
from PIL import Image, ImageTk
`class Window(Frame):`
`def __init__(self, master=None):
Frame.__init__(self, master)
self.master = master
self.pack(fill=BOTH, expand=1)
load = Image.open("parrot.jpg")
render = ImageTk.PhotoImage(load)
img = Label(self, image=render)
img.image = render
img.place(x=0, y=0)`
Luke, this is too late , however may help others. Your image has to be in the same sub directory with .py script. You can also type './imageFileName.png'
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I am trying to make a program to display one single image (.png extension) at once but giving a button to the user to change the picture.
What I have done is:
Reading the Image from my directory with help of Pillow module
Appended it to a list
With a button I increase or decrease the index of the list.
(Note I have to read 600 images approx.)
Here's the code:
import os
from tkinter import *
from PIL import ImageTk,Image
import threading,time
#Define the tkinter instance
x=0
win= Tk()
dir_path= os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
print(dir_path)
l1=[]
#Define the size of the tkinter frame
win.geometry("700x400")
def start():
threading.Thread(target=bg).start()
win.after(5000,threading.Thread(target=fg).start())
#Define the function to start the thread
def bg():
print("bg")
for i in range(1,604):
a=Image.open(f"{dir_path}\\{i}.png")
a=a.resize((500,700), Image.ANTIALIAS)
b=ImageTk.PhotoImage(a)
l1.append(b)
print(b)
print(len(l1))
def fg():
def add():
global x
x+=1
img2=l1[x]
d.configure(image=img2)
d.image = img2
d.update()
global d
d=Label(win,image=l1[x])
d.pack()
Button(win,text="add",command=add).place(x=0,y=0)
label= Label(win)
label.pack(pady=20)
#Create button
b1= Button(win,text= "Start", command=start)
b1.pack(pady=20)
win.mainloop()
But the problem is that the Tkinter gets dead freeze and laggy to an extent that the GUI is not operable.
So my question is,
How to fix Tkinter dead Frezzes and if there is any way to read the images as fast as possible?
The freezes of Tkinter depends on reading speed of the interpreter, because:
continuously reading and Showing the pictures are a huge job for Python.
reading images using opencv or any other image processing module wont help as reading part can become faster, but showing the image in tkinter is done using python only, so rapid changes in Label will cause tkinter to crash.
Solution:
Switch to a different compiler based language for example c++.
this solution is specifically for a image slideshow,
The solution is to use selenium with python. You can specify the image location in driver.get(image_path) and it will open the image for you, and if you want to change the image with a button, then just rename all your images with the numbers and make a button to add +1 to the index.
In using Python's Tkinter application, I have come across a little problem. How do I hide and show GIF images that I have put into the window using PhotoImage?
I can make the images appear in the first place, but am unable to do anything with them. I have tried using canvas.itemconfig and canvas.update, but to no avail. Is anyone able to solve this problem?
picture = PhotoImage(file='C:\\Users\\ZecFamily5\\Downloads\\Island.gif')
c.create_image(250, 250, image=picture)
The above code cannot be hidden or shown using c.itemconfig(image, state=HIDDEN).
You should do .itemconfig(Your Item Name, state=HIDDEN) and to show, change HIDDEN to NORMAL to show.
I would recommend using the ImageTK module:
img = ImageTk.PhotoImage(Image.open(path))
As it should allow you to make a TKinter compatible photo image.
For this to work though, do keep in mind that this will need to be at the beginning of your file:
import Tkinter as tk
from PIL import ImageTk, Image
Here is an example piece of code to show you what I mean:
import Tkinter as tk
from PIL import ImageTk, Image
path = 'C:/xxxx/xxxx.jpg'
root = tk.Tk()
img = ImageTk.PhotoImage(Image.open(path))
panel = tk.Label(root, image = img)
panel.pack(side = "bottom", fill = "both", expand = "yes")
root.mainloop()
I'm trying to see images as generated by the Python Imaging Library. Using the following snippet returns after displaying the image in a separate process. Is there a way to show images and have the python script block until I close the window?
from PIL import Image
...
img = Image.open(...)
img.show()
I could use a GUI library like Qt to achieve this. I don't want to add that just to view an image.
An indirect way to achieve a blocking call is to show a PIL image in matplotlib:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
import PIL
img = PIL.Image.open("image.jpg")
plt.imshow(np.asarray(img))
plt.show() # Default is a blocking call
Pillow explicitly starts its Mac and Unix Viewers in the background. Fortunately, Pillow also exposes a way to register custom viewers so you can override this behaviour.
I use feh personally:
import os
from PIL ImageShow
class FehViewer(ImageShow.UnixViewer):
def show_file(self, filename, **options):
os.system('feh %s' % filename)
return 1
ImageShow.register(FehViewer, order=-1)
[...]
A simple UI window using tk can accomplish this:
from PIL import Image, ImageTk
from tkinter import Tk, Label, BOTH
from tkinter.ttk import Frame, Style
class Example(Frame, object):
def __init__(self, parent):
Frame.__init__(self, parent)
self.pack(fill=BOTH, expand=1)
label1 = Label(self)
label1.photo= ImageTk.PhotoImage(Image.open(r"myImage"))
label1.config(image=label1.photo)
label1.pack(fill=BOTH, expand=1)
parent.mainloop()
Example(Tk())
Note: the code is in python 3, for python 2 the imports would be slightly different:
from Tkinter import Tk, Label, BOTH
from ttk import Frame, Style
I want to display a gif image using Pillow
Here is my simple code:
from tkinter import *
from PIL import Image, ImageTk
import tkinter as Tk
image = Image.open("Puissance4.gif")
image.show()
But nothing happens...
All help will be appreciated
Thanks!
PIL provides a show method which attempts to detect your OS and choose an
appropriate viewer. On Unix it tries calling the imagemagick command display
or xv. On Macs it uses open, on Windows it uses... something else.
If it can't find an appropriate viewer, ImageShow._viewers will be an empty list.
On Raspbian, you'll need to install an image viewer such as display, xv or fim. (Note a search on the web will show that there are many image viewers available.) Then
you can tell PIL to use it by specifying the command parameter:
image.show(command='fim')
To display an image in Tkinter, you could use something like:
from PIL import Image, ImageTk
import tkinter as tk
root = tk.Tk()
img = Image.open("image.gif")
tkimage = ImageTk.PhotoImage(img)
tk.Label(root, image=tkimage).pack()
root.mainloop()
I have been trying to resize images using PIL then display them using Tkinter, but the program has been crashing and I've isolated the problem to the second line below:
image = Image.open("0.gif")
photo = ImageTk.PhotoImage(image)
And this is my imports:
from Tkinter import *
from PIL import Image, ImageTk
I've read around that Tk must be initialized and I do this in the program before it reaches those lines in the program. So I don't know what it is.
I am running OSX and python 2.7 interpreter on eclipse (using PyDev).
UPDATE:
Error message on eclipse says:
STACK: Stack after current is in use
I've seen that error before using tkinter. I think it had something to do with an older version of tkinter. I updated my python version and tkinter version and it went away. Does this error happen when you run your code on a different OS/Computer/Platform/Version of Python? What version of tkinter are you using? Some google searching revealed these two pages which describe the same bug while using tkinter...
http://osdir.com/ml/python.leo.general/2008-03/msg00060.html
http://fornax.phys.unm.edu/lwa/trac/ticket/3
I can't see all your code, but I'm betting that there is not necessarily anything wrong with your code. The following code worked for me...
from Tkinter import *
from PIL import Image, ImageTk
# resize image with PIL
im = Image.open('path to gif')
resized_im = im.resize((400,400,),Image.ANTIALIAS)
# display image in tkinter window
window = Tk()
tk_im = ImageTk.PhotoImage(resized_im)
window.geometry('%dx%d' % (resized_im.size[0],resized_im.size[1]))
label_image = Label(window, image=tk_im)
label_image.place(x=0,y=0,width=resized_im.size[0],height=resized_im.size[1])
window.mainloop()
Using....
ubuntu 10.04 64 bit
python 2.6.5
python-imaging-tk 1.1.7
python-tk 2.6.5 (which uses version 8.5.0 of tkinter)
python imaging library (PIL) 1.1.7
eclipse 3.7.1
pydev 2.5.0.2012050419
Good luck!
I've been using both Tk, PIL and resizing images for a current project and the following code works fine for me.
#Imports
from Tkinter import *
from PIL import Image, ImageTk
#Create Tk instance
root = Tk()
#Open image and resize
image = Image.open("path/to/image/file").resize((400,400), Image.ANTIALIAS)
photo = ImageTk.PhotoImage(image)
After that, I find it easiest to display the images as labels in tkinter like so.
image_label = Label(root, width = 400, height = 400, image = photo bd = 0)
(I like the bd = 0 as otherwise I get a thin white border around the image.)
Hope this has helped you. Good luck!
Ed
So this is an ancient question, but in case someone stumbles upon this (like I just did), the error message is from Tcl (tclExecute.c). I have no idea what's triggering it, but one thing worth trying is to create a Tk instance before calling PhotoImage:
root = Tk()
image = Image.open("0.gif")
photo = ImageTk.PhotoImage(image)