Image (Python)

Code used to generate this example


  from gi.repository import Gtk
import sys


class MyWindow(Gtk.ApplicationWindow):
    # create a window

    def __init__(self, app):
        Gtk.Window.__init__(self, title="Welcome to GNOME", application=app)
        self.set_default_size(300, 300)

        # create an image
        image = Gtk.Image()
        # set the content of the image as the file filename.png
        image.set_from_file("gnome-image.png")
        # add the image to the window
        self.add(image)


class MyApplication(Gtk.Application):

    def __init__(self):
        Gtk.Application.__init__(self)

    def do_activate(self):
        win = MyWindow(self)
        win.show_all()

    def do_startup(self):
        Gtk.Application.do_startup(self)

app = MyApplication()
exit_status = app.run(sys.argv)
sys.exit(exit_status)

Another way to obtain what we have in the example is to create the image as an instance of another class and add it to the instance of MyWindow in the do_activate(self) method:


    # a class to create a window
    class MyWindow(Gtk.ApplicationWindow):
    def __init__(self, app):
        Gtk.Window.__init__(self, title="Welcome to GNOME", application=app)
        self.set_default_size(300, 300)

    # a class to create an image
    class MyImage(Gtk.Image):
    def __init__(self):
        Gtk.Image.__init__(self)
        self.set_from_file("gnome-image.png")

    class MyApplication(Gtk.Application):
    def __init__(self):
        Gtk.Application.__init__(self)

    def do_activate(self):
        # create an instance of MyWindow
        win = MyWindow(self)
        # create an instance of MyImage and add it to the window
        win.add(MyImage())
        # show the window and everything on it
        win.show_all()

To use this code snippet, you will need to add the code that imports Gtk and GdkPixbuf from gi.repository and lines that instantiate the MyApplication window.

Useful methods for an Image widget

To load an image over a network use set_from_pixbuf(pixbuf), where pixbuf is a GdkPixbuf.


        from gi.repository import Gtk
        from gi.repository import GdkPixbuf
        import sys

        class MyWindow(Gtk.ApplicationWindow):
            # create a window
            def __init__(self, app):
                Gtk.Window.__init__(self, title="Welcome to GNOME", application=app)
                self.set_default_size(300, 300)

                # create a pixbuf from file filename="gnome-image.png", with width=32
                # and height=64 amd boolean preserve_aspect_ratio=False.
                pixbuf = GdkPixbuf.Pixbuf.new_from_file_at_scale("gnome-image.png", 64, 128, False)

                # create an image
                image = Gtk.Image()
                # set the content of the image as the pixbuf
                image.set_from_pixbuf(pixbuf)
                # add the image to the window
                self.add(image)

If preserve_aspect_ratio=True we can use new_from_file_at_size(filename, width, height). If width or height is -1, it is not constrained.

For loading from an input stream, see new_from_stream() and new_from_stream_at_scale() in the documentation.

API References

In this sample we used the following:

GtkImage

GtkWindow