Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Dustan wrote: > > > Ok, that worked (was it plain w or the writelines/readlines that messed > > it up?). > > the plain "w"; very few image files are text files. > > > But Tkinter still can't find the image. I'm getting an error > > message: > > > > TclError: image "C:\Documents and [pathname snipped]" doesn't exist > > > > If it makes a difference, I'm on a Windows XP machine, and don't have > > to go cross-platform. > > the "image" option takes a PhotoImage object, not a file name: > > http://effbot.org/tkinterbook/photoimage.htm > > note that the built-in PhotoImage type only supports a few image > formats; to get support for e.g. PNG and JPEG, you can use PIL which > ships with it's own PhotoImage replacement: > > http://effbot.org/imagingbook/imagetk.htm
Thanks for the information. The reason I hadn't made any attempt before is well illustrated here; I didn't have enough information at my disposal to know where to start and how I it works. My references are more basic-level than that (I do have a better reference to look to, but it's currently inaccessible). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
