Tkinter

[Fredrik Lundh]

"Jay" <first180 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Cold somebody please enlighten me at why code 1 works perfectly and yet
> code to will not display the gif file.

> code 2
> -----------START---------
>
> from Tkinter import *
>
> class App:
>     def __init__(self, root):
>         self.MainFrame = Canvas(root)
>         self.MainFrame.pack(fill=BOTH, expand=1)
>
>         BackgroundFile = PhotoImage(file="Background.GIF")
>         Tank1 = self.MainFrame.create_image(0, 0, image=BackgroundFile)
>
> root = Tk()
> app = App(root)
> root.mainloop()
>
> -----------END---------
> Thanks

you need to keep a reference to the photo object on the Python side
of things, to keep it from being garbage collected.

see the note at the bottom of this page:

    http://www.effbot.org/tkinterbook/photoimage.htm

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