Play Animations in GIF with Tkinter

I’ve been trying to play an animated gif using Tkinter.PhotoImage, but haven’t been seeing any success. It displays the image, but not the animation. The following is my code: root = Tkinter.Tk() photo = Tkinter.PhotoImage(file = "path/to/image.gif") label = Tkinter.Label(image = photo) label.pack() root.mainloop() It displays the image in a window, and that’s it. I’m … Read more

simple animation using tkinter

I have a simple code to visualise some data using tkinter. A button click is bound to the function that redraws the next “frame” of data. However, I’d like to have the option to redraw automatically with a certain frequency. I’m very green when it comes to GUI programming (I don’t have to do a lot for this code), so most of my tkinter knowledge comes from following and modifying examples. I guess I can use root.after to achieve this, but I’m not quite sure I understand how from other codes. The basic structure of my program is as follows: