Re: gtk.image

[Tomas Carnecky <tom dbservice com>]

brad smith wrote:
> thanks for the reply, I tried everything I can think of, but still get
> the error.

Your problem is that get_image() does _not_ return the filename, but the 
gdk pixbuf for the image - as described in the pygtk reference. So if 
you want to get the filename, you have to use another function.

> On Dec 25, 2007 11:33 AM, Tomas Carnecky <tom dbservice com> wrote:
> > brad smith wrote:
> > > Hello everyone,
> > >
> > > I am using gtk.Image() and filling it with set_from_file with a random
> > I assume you're using the python bindings..
> >
> > > image in a directory. I am trying to use gtk.get_image() to get the
> > > name of the image currently being displayed but I get:
> > > gImage = self.rImage.get_image()
> > > ValueError: image should be a GdkImage or empty
> > >
> > > There is a image being displayed when I try to get image name.
> > > Thanks for your time,
> > RTFM, especially what get_image() returns:
> > http://www.pygtk.org/pygtk2reference/class-gtkimage.html#method-gtkimage--get-image