Newbie needs help with canvas.create_image !

[Fredrik Lundh]

Antti Isomursu wrote:

> With code below I get a red box with given width and height. When I
> use that create_image, nothing happens. I only see that same red box.
> Why is that?
> The loop.bmp is working fine when I use show() method.
>
>        win = Toplevel()
>
>        canvas = Canvas(win, width=100, height=100, background='red')
>        canvas.pack()
>
>        im = Image.open("loop.bmp")
>        photo = ImageTk.PhotoImage(im)
>
>        canvas.create_image(8, 8, anchor="nw", image=photo)

the problem might be that the PhotoImage is garbage collected before being
displayed.  see the note on the bottom of this page for details:

    http://effbot.org/zone/tkinter-photoimage.htm

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