04 Working with Images

tkinter version

If your version of tkinter is 8.6 or higher then PhotoImage also works with png files directly.

Using PhotoImage tkinter and ttk work with gif, pgm or ppm images and use xbm with BitmapImage. (PhotoImage and BitmapImage are both imported using tkinter).

Display Images in tkinter

tkinter version	PhotoImage	BitmapImage
all versions	gif	xbm
all versions	pgm
all versions	ppm
8.6 or higher	png

You can check out the tkinter version as follows:

import tkinter
print(tkinter.TkVersion)

Some widgets have a property option called image (it is shown in Tkinter 8.5 reference: a GUI for Python) so once the image file is initiated in PhotoImage it can be loaded directly onto the widget.

Note

All the images used with the examples will be found in the directory "images". and the programs can be run using the same directory structure on your computer.

• Button Image
  • Script 04button_image.py
• Loading Images
• Button Pictograms
  • Script 04button_pictograms.py