Python, Tkinter: Why Is This Jpeg Not Showing?

Trying to display a picture from the internet on my GUI window. So far my code is: picURL = 'https://graph.facebook.com/' + ID + '/picture' picBytes= urlopen(picURL).read() picData

Solution 1:

This is a wild guess now, but I just remembered a similar problem. I was able to reproduce your "blue box" this way, so this might be your problem, too. I'll just give it a try.

I assume that the PhotoImage is created in some other scope (maybe a method showImage(self, id) or something like that) and no reference to it is kept beyond the scope of this method. This has the effect that the PhotoImage will be garbage-collected at the end of this method, even though it is used in the Label!

Try creating a variable that exists for the whole life time of the frame and bind the PhotoImage to that variable (e.g. self.images[ID] when using a class for the GUI, or some global variable otherwise). If I am right, and this is indeed the problem, then this should help.