How to reference the relative directory when creating a photoimage

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How to reference the relative directory when creating a photoimage - kenwatts275 - May-17-2021

Hello everyone.
I am writing a card game and I am trying to put an image of the card suit (clubs, diamonds, hearts or spades) on a button.
I have the images saved in a subdirectory called "images".
To create the Photoimage object, I use the following code:

photo_c = PhotoImage(file = r"C:\Users\kwatt\python\images\club.png")

However, I do not want to specify "C:\Users\kwatt\python" because I want to be able to run the script on another computer which will have a different path.
I tried the following but none of them work:

photo_c = PhotoImage(file = r"images\club.png")
photo_c = PhotoImage(file = r"\images\club.png")
photo_c = PhotoImage(file = r".\images\club.png")

Below is the entire program for reference:

from tkinter import *c
import tkinter.font as font

mw = Tk()
# 999x999 is size of window, 999+999 is the location of the window
mw.geometry('800x450+400+200')
mw.title(__file__)

frame3 = Frame(mw)
framebot = Frame(mw)
frame3.pack(side=TOP,fill=X)
framebot.pack(side=BOTTOM,fill=X)

buttonFont = font.Font(family='Helvetica', size=22, weight='bold')

btn5 = Button(framebot,text='Deal',font=("Times",16),command=lambda: main_program(deck,hand1,melds1,meld_types1,hand2,melds2,meld_types2,card_buttons,count_button,computer_buttons)).pack(side="left")
btn6 = Button(framebot,text='Exit',font=("Times",16),command=mw.quit).pack(side="right")

# Creating a photoimage object to use image
photo_c = PhotoImage(file = r"C:\Users\kwatt\python\images\club.png")
photo_d = PhotoImage(file = r"C:\Users\kwatt\python\images\diamond.png")
photo_h = PhotoImage(file = r"C:\Users\kwatt\python\images\heart.png")
photo_s = PhotoImage(file = r"C:\Users\kwatt\python\images\spade.png")
photo_b = PhotoImage(file = r"C:\Users\kwatt\python\images\blank.png")

# Resizing image to fit on button
photoimage_c = photo_c.subsample(3, 3)
photoimage_d = photo_d.subsample(3, 3)
photoimage_h = photo_h.subsample(3, 3)
photoimage_s = photo_s.subsample(3, 3)
photoimage_b = photo_b.subsample(3, 3)

d2 = Radiobutton(frame3,text=" ",value=10,indicatoron=0,width=60,height=88,
		image=photoimage_b,bg='white',font=buttonFont,compound=RIGHT)
d2.grid(row=0,column=2,rowspan=2)

d2['text'] = "5"
d2['fg'] = "black"
d2['image'] = photoimage_c

mw.mainloop()

Thanks in advance.

RE: How to reference the relative directory when creating a photoimage - menator01 - May-17-2021

You could try something like

import os
img_dir =os.getcwd()

image = img_dir(f'images/my_image.png')

RE: How to reference the relative directory when creating a photoimage - kenwatts275 - May-18-2021

(May-17-2021, 07:30 AM)menator01 Wrote: You could try something like
import os
img_dir =os.getcwd()

image = img_dir(f'images/my_image.png')

When I use os.getcwd() it returns "/home/kwatt", not "C:/Users/kwatt".
When I append this to the front of my file, I get the following error:

_tkinter.TclError: couldn't open "/home/kwatt/python/images/club.png": no such file or directory

RE: How to reference the relative directory when creating a photoimage - menator01 - May-18-2021

This works for me

import tkinter as tk
import os
from functools import partial

def print_selected(var):
    label['font'] = ('times', 30)
    label['text'] = var

suites = ['heart', 'diamond', 'club', 'spade']
img_dir = os.getcwd()
print(img_dir)
root = tk.Tk()
root.title('Card Suites')
root.geometry('800x450+250+250')

col = 0
option = tk.StringVar()
option.set(suites[0])
for suite in suites:
    suite_img = tk.PhotoImage(file=f'{img_dir}\images\{suite}.png')
    suite_img.img = suite_img
    radio = tk.Radiobutton(root, image=suite_img, value=suite, var=option, \
    command=partial(print_selected, suite), indicatoron=0)
    radio.grid(row=0, column=col)
    col += 1
label = tk.Label(root)
label['text'] = 'default text'
label.grid(column=0, row=1, rowspan=4)

root.mainloop()

output for img_dir

Output:
C:\Users\John Doe\Desktop\cards