Tkinter-Chessboard

[Eric Brunel]

> I'm trying my hand a gui programming in python. And the first thing I
> tried to make is a chessboard.  I acheived the desired effect by drawing
> filled rectangles, now I want to put pieces on the chessboard. The
> question is, how do I load an image onto a square ?

There are two classes for images with Tkinter: BitmapImage for monochrome 
ones and PhotoImage for colour ones. Creating either of them is quite 
straightforward:
img = BitmapImage(file="/path/to/image/file")
or:
img = PhotoImage(file="/path/to/image/file")
The files should be in XBM format for BitmapImage and GIF for PhotoImage 
(there may be other working formats, but I don't know them).
Then, to insert the images in your Canvas (assuming you've already done for 
your chessboard), just do:
theCanvas.create_image(x, y, image=img)

There are as usual many options for all these, but I leave it to you to 
discover them :-). For documentation, please refer to:
http://www.pythonware.com/library/tkinter/introduction/index.htm

Hope this helps.
 - eb -