python tkinter display animated GIF using PIL

Question

Is there any way to display an animated GIF in Tkinter using Python Image Library?

I thought the ImageSequence module would be the way to do it, but I don\'t know h

Answer 1

Newsgroups: comp.lang.python

From: "Fredrik Lundh"

Date: Mon, 1 May 2006

Daniel Nogradi wrote:

'The source distribution of the 1.1.4 version comes with a Scripts directory where you can find player.py, gifmaker.py and explode.py which all deal with animated gif.'

they're still shipped with 1.1.5 (and 1.1.6), and they should work.

if all you're missing is a few files from the script directory, you can get them here:

http://svn.effbot.org/public/pil/Scripts/

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player.py is run from the command line

see if this one works for you:

from Tkinter import * 
from PIL import Image, ImageTk


class MyLabel(Label):
    def __init__(self, master, filename):
        im = Image.open(filename)
        seq =  []
        try:
            while 1:
                seq.append(im.copy())
                im.seek(len(seq)) # skip to next frame
        except EOFError:
            pass # we're done

        try:
            self.delay = im.info['duration']
        except KeyError:
            self.delay = 100

        first = seq[0].convert('RGBA')
        self.frames = [ImageTk.PhotoImage(first)]

        Label.__init__(self, master, image=self.frames[0])

        temp = seq[0]
        for image in seq[1:]:
            temp.paste(image)
            frame = temp.convert('RGBA')
            self.frames.append(ImageTk.PhotoImage(frame))

        self.idx = 0

        self.cancel = self.after(self.delay, self.play)

    def play(self):
        self.config(image=self.frames[self.idx])
        self.idx += 1
        if self.idx == len(self.frames):
            self.idx = 0
        self.cancel = self.after(self.delay, self.play)        


root = Tk()
anim = MyLabel(root, 'animated.gif')
anim.pack()

def stop_it():
    anim.after_cancel(anim.cancel)

Button(root, text='stop', command=stop_it).pack()

root.mainloop()

Answer 2

Simple PIL version:

canvas = Image.new("RGB",(Width,Height),"white")
gif = Image.open('text.gif', 'r')
frames = []
try:
    while 1:
        frames.append(gif.copy())
        gif.seek(len(frames))
except EOFError:
    pass

for frame in frames:
     canvas.paste(frame)
     canvas.show()