🔒 TTKBootstrap is telling me an image (PIL) doesn't exist. Do I need to convert the type?

[plucky bobcat]

I get the following error:

_tkinter.TclError: image "<PIL.Image.Image image mode=RGB size=625x176 at 0x17BCFDC5B80>" doesn't exist

after creating an image and trying to display it to a Canvas widget with .create_image. I set up print statements in my code that indicate that the image is being created and edited successfully. The error shows the correct dimensions for the image, too, so I'm almost certain that it's working up to that point. Do I need to convert the PIL object to a "real" image, or something?

[worldly nacelle]

@plucky bobcat

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[scarlet carbon]

It needs to be a tkinter image, so PhotoImage or BitmapImage or whatever

according to this SO answer, PhotoImage(some_PIL_image) works: https://stackoverflow.com/a/18369957

[plucky bobcat]

Thanks a million!

I'm getting a weird error now

TypeError: str returned non-string (type Image)

Exception in Tkinter callback
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\XX\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\Lib\tkinter\__init__.py", line 1968, in __call__
    return self.func(*args)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\XX\PycharmProjects\pythonProject\GUITEST.py", line 228, in testButton
    cropCapture(selected_window, x1, y1, width, height)
  File "C:\Users\XX\PycharmProjects\pythonProject\GUITEST.py", line 224, in cropCapture
    imgdisplay.create_image(0, 0, image=tkimg)
  File "C:\Users\XX\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\Lib\tkinter\__init__.py", line 2875, in create_image
    return self._create('image', args, kw)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\XX\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\Lib\tkinter\__init__.py", line 2861, in _create
    return self.tk.getint(self.tk.call(
                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
TypeError: __str__ returned non-string (type Image)

I have inherited your magical powers of searching stack overflow, and I found the solution

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