Generating a spacer gif on the fly

[Martin Franklin]

On Wednesday 09 Oct 2002 10:50 am, Martin Franklin wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 Oct 2002 9:36 am, Max M wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I am writing an app where it would be practical to have a function that
> > generates a spacer gif in a given color::
> >
> >      def spacer(color=''):
> >          "Generates a 1x1 pixel gif with color, no color means
> > transparent"
>
> Guessing that you are using Tkinter.......  try the PhotoImage class:-
>
> from Tkinter import *
>
>

<snip my own dodgy looking code....>

### tested'ish


from Tkinter import *


class Spacer:
    def __init__(self, color="", width=1, height=1):        
        self.image = PhotoImage(width=width, height=height)
        if color:
            for row in range(height):
                for col in range(width):
                    self.image.put(color, (col, row))
                
    def getSpacer(self):
        return self.image




if __name__=="__main__":
    root=Tk()
    image=Spacer(width=100, height=10, color="red")
    l1=Label(root, text="Image here>")
    l1.pack(side="left")
    l=Label(root, image=image.getSpacer())
    l.pack(side="left")
    l1=Label(root, text="<Image here")
    l1.pack(side="left")
    root.mainloop()




## notes:  doing it in a class like this takes care of the referencing of the
## image (python cleans up un-referencd Tk images.....)


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