Strange problem with Tkinter... photos don't show on first iteration.

[aldonnelley at gmail.com]

And I say once again: I can't thank you enough.

YOU ROCK!

cheers, al.

(Just changed the code in my main program, and it WORKS! The previous
thankyou was only a preliminary.)
ps I really like python, too. :)

aldonnelley at gmail.com wrote:
> Yup,
> That's the problem. Can't thank you enough.
> I'd read about Tkinter "garbage collection", but, like car crashes and
> lung cancer, you never think it's going to happen to you...
>
> thanks once again.
> Cheers, Al.
>
> Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> > aldonnelley at gmail.com wrote:
> >
> > > Just having a weird problem with tkinter. I'm trying to make a gui that
> > > shows results from an image search, with a "forward" and "back" button
> > > so the user can compare results from different pages. All that's
> > > working fine...
> > > The problem I'm having is that the images don't show onscreen the first
> > > time the "first page" of results shows up. When I click the "search
> > > again" button, and have more than the original results page to toggle
> > > between, the images __do__ show up on the "first page" of results. (and
> > > on the second, etc, etc.)
> > > Which is to say,  there's no error messages, and on the first "page",
> > > the first time it's shown, the Toplevel formats correctly, and there
> > > are spaces where the images should be that are the correct size,
> > > just... no images.
> > > It's baffling me. Perhaps someone can help.
> >
> > this is explained in the Python FAQ, and also in the note at the bottom
> > of this page:
> > 
> >     http://effbot.org/tkinterbook/photoimage.htm
> > 
> > </F>