Images in Tkinter

[kyosohma at gmail.com]

On Jul 20, 11:37 am, "Viewer T." <dtgead... at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I wrote a class in which I have to use Tkinter images. When I create
> an image object in the class and reference it with the image attribute
> of label within the class, it does not dhow the image. It just shows a
> blank label that conforms to the size of the image. My images is a GIF
> image.
>
> My code takes the form:
> class Login:
>      def __init__(self):
>           create image object and other things necessary for class
> initialisation
>           self.make_widgets
>      def make_widgets(self):
>           Then I create my widgets
>
> Then, I instantiate the login class.
>
> I use Python 2.5. Does anyone have any idea why my imae does not
> diplay itself? I have tried using the image before outside a class and
> it works! Also, I tried creating the image object outside class but it
> gives a runtime error saying it is too early to create an image
> object. Please help!

This might be the problem: http://effbot.org/pyfaq/why-do-my-tkinter-images-not-appear.htm

Mike