Problem with Tkinter.PhotoImage

[Fredrik Lundh]

Cédric Lucantis wrote:

> I can only load gif images with Tkinter.PhotoImage and none with BitmapImage. 
> I tried png, jpg, bmp and xpm and always got this errors :
> 
>>>> img = Tkinter.PhotoImage(file='/home/omer/fgfs/fgsync/map.xpm')
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 3206, in __init__
>     Image.__init__(self, 'photo', name, cnf, master, **kw)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 3162, in __init__
>     self.tk.call(('image', 'create', imgtype, name,) + options)
> _tkinter.TclError: couldn't recognize data in image 
> file "/home/omer/fgfs/fgsync/map.xpm"

to add to Kevin's reply, you seem to have a properly configured PIL on 
your machine:

> python-imaging
> python-imaging-tk

which means that you could try replacing Tkinter.PhotoImage with

     from PIL import ImageTk

     img = ImageTk.PhotoImage(file='/home/omer/fgfs/fgsync/map.xpm')

(PIL's XPM support isn't 100% perfect though; if it looks like crap, try 
using PNG or GIF or some other not quite as silly format...)

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