Tkinter: Image not recognised

Question

I have a simple GUI program I'm building with Tkinter. I want to have a bunch of buttons with app images on them that, when clicked, launch that app. The problem is, Python can't recognise the Skype.gif file.

Code:

from tkinter import *
import os

def open_skype():
    os.system('open /Applications/Skype.app')

master = Tk()

photo = PhotoImage(file='/Users/michael/Desktop/Skype.gif')

but = Button(master, image=photo, command=open_skype)



objs = [but]

column = 1
for i in objs:
    i.grid(column=column, row=1)
    column += 1
mainloop()

Error message:

_tkinter.TclError: couldn't recognize data in image file "/Users/michael/Desktop/Skype.gif"

I tried those and I got the same error: _tkinter.TclError: couldn't recognize data in image file "/Users/michael/Desktop/Skype.png" — woff, Jul 13 '14 at 16:25
How did you convert it from `GIF` to `PNG` ? Can you see this image in some image viewer ? — furas, Jul 13 '14 at 16:26
Probably you will need install and import another module for images - see [PhotoImage](http://effbot.org/tkinterbook/photoimage.htm) in [Tkinterbook](http://effbot.org/tkinterbook/) — furas, Jul 13 '14 at 16:35
have you checked this one? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15718663/tkinter-image-not-showing-or-giving-an-error — Lafexlos, Jul 13 '14 at 16:47
Try with this image http://furas.pl/screenshot.gif It works for me. If it doesn't work for you maybe you need some library in system or module in python. — furas, Jul 13 '14 at 16:48
You can try in console/terminal `file Skype.gif` - maybe it give you some inforamtion about file format. — furas, Jul 13 '14 at 16:51
Yeah, that image doesn't work, and in terminal it replies: Skype.gif: data — woff, Jul 13 '14 at 16:52
Not directly connected to the problem but `objs` and the loop look very strange and unnecessarily complex. `but.grid(column=1, row=1)` has the same effect. BTW counting of rows and columns starts at 0. You are leaving cells in that grid unused. — BlackJack, Jul 13 '14 at 16:55
`file screenshot.gif` gives me `screenshot.gif: GIF image data, version 89a, 809 x 775` so `file Skype.gif` should give you something similar. — furas, Jul 13 '14 at 16:57
@BlackJack, I'm planning to do this with lots of buttons and I just wrote that out so I could add to the array as I wanted. Also, the way I did it nicely keeps each widget on the same row, and lays them out as they are in the array. Column is for future use. Furas, it only replies Skype.gif: data. I'm on a mac if that helps. — woff, Jul 13 '14 at 16:57
Did you try `file screenshot.gif` ? Well, maybe you will have to install `PIL` to work with other image formats - see `Tkinterbook` again. — furas, Jul 13 '14 at 17:02
The way you did it every widget in `objs` would go into the very same cell. Maybe you meant to write `for i, wigdet in enumerate(objs):` and use `i` as value for `column`, the point is that's half baked code irrelevant to the problem. — BlackJack, Jul 13 '14 at 17:02
`enumerate(objs)` or `enumerate(objs,1)` is good idea :) better then `column += 1` — furas, Jul 13 '14 at 17:07
Nah, it's fine - my code works. I see why it's better though. — woff, Jul 13 '14 at 17:08

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 13 '14 at 16:21

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Your problem is most likely that the image is not in the correct place. TO ensure that it is, try entering your command line (Terminal for Macs), and typing in ls /Users/michael/Desktop/Skype.gif. If prints Skype.gif or /Users/michael/Desktop/Skype.gif, then the file is there, otherwise it is not.

answered Jul 13 '14 at 16:21

ZenOfPython

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No, that's not the problem - I made sure the path's right. – woff Jul 13 '14 at 16:22

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 20 '17 at 22:22

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The path starts at where the python file is located so if they're in the same folder just put photo = PhotoImage(file='Skype.gif')

answered Jan 20 '17 at 22:22

Imperial_Sqiud

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 25 '17 at 14:31

Tkinter only recognize s PNG images or JPG images in some cases. If you have a gif image you can incorporate it by using another module called WxPython. How this works is that it uses Frame by frame images to display a video type image. Tkinter does not support this.

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 25 '17 at 14:38

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Make sure your image is in the format of PNG or JPG

answered Mar 25 '17 at 14:38

Jack Carter

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Tkinter: Image not recognised

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