On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 3:58 AM, Alan Gauld <alan.ga...@btinternet.com>wrote:
> > <pa...@cruzio.com> wrote > > > of my python program where a picture is supposed to display with a few >> lines of text below it. >> > > To do this you will need to use some kind of GUI. > The simplest option is probably to use the Text widget in Tkinter > which can display both Images and text. I'll second the motion. You can probably write the most basic functions in less than 50 lines <snip> > How do I get any picture to display on half a screen then my print text >> display below that and stay on screen for 2 or 3 minutes before I call >> another function that will redraw the screen anyway - it will be >> interactive text responses with the user. Also this is a test .gif file, >> I may want to just edit the source file and change this to a .jpg. >> > > The Tkinter PhotoImage object can display jpg. I can't recall if > it does gifs. If you want to habndle many types yoyu may need to > look at using an image convertion library too. PIL (What you have installed to use the Image library) allows you to convert basically any image to a format you can use in Tkinter. There is a short example here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1236540/how-do-i-use-pil-with-tkinter HTH, Wayne
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