Image not displaying in Text widget

[Fredrik Lundh]

Sudipta Chatterjee wrote:

> I am facing a strange problem when I try to embed images in a text widget.
> After reading the file via PhotoImage() and then using
> text.image_create(INSERT,
> image=img), I get a blank place instead of the image. The size of the blank
> area under highlighting via the mouse select comes to exactly the size of
> the image itself, but the contents of the image are not displaying.
>
> I have pack() -ed the text widget already and text around this
> image_create() function are displaying just fine. But the image's contents
> just don't show up! :(

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