_tkinter.TclError: image "pyimage3" doesn't exist about tkintermapview

[TomSchimansky]

Maybe you can post your full code, and the full error message. Are you on Windows or macOS?

[UniquePhilosophy]

I can't post the full code, but I will post everything I think is relevant:

Function that loads new window and creates and places instance of map (I tried again with your dimensions etc. to make sure it wasn't the way I was constructing the map):

def show_map():
    map_window = Tk()
    map_window.title('Map View')
    map_window.geometry('1920x1080+0+0')

    agency_map = TkinterMapView(map_window, width=800, height=600, corner_radius=0)
    agency_map.place(relx=0.5, rely=0.5, anchor=CENTER)

(above is indented properly, just can't get the indents to work properly on github)

One line code importing the library (After 'pip install tkintermapview'):

from tkintermapview import TkinterMapView

That's as simple as it gets really, the full error is this:

Exception in Tkinter callback
Traceback (most recent call last):

File "C:\Users\Jord\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\tkinter\__init__.py", line 1892, in __call__
    return self.func(*args)

File "C:\Users\Jord\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\tkinter\__init__.py", line 814, in callit
    func(*args)

File "C:\Users\Jord\PycharmProjects\superposer_v0.0.1\venv\lib\site-packages\tkintermapview\map_widget.py", line 361, in update_canvas_tile_images
    canvas_tile.set_image(image)

File "C:\Users\Jord\PycharmProjects\superposer_v0.0.1\venv\lib\site-packages\tkintermapview\canvas_tile.py", line 33, in set_image
    self.draw(image_update=True)

File "C:\Users\Jord\PycharmProjects\superposer_v0.0.1\venv\lib\site-packages\tkintermapview\canvas_tile.py", line 56, in draw
    self.canvas_object = self.map_widget.canvas.create_image(canvas_pos_x,

File "C:\Users\Jord\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\tkinter\__init__.py", line 2790, in create_image
    return self._create('image', args, kw)

File "C:\Users\Jord\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\tkinter\__init__.py", line 2776, in _create
    return self.tk.getint(self.tk.call(

_tkinter.TclError: image "pyimage3" doesn't exist

[TomSchimansky]

I cannot reproduce this, maybe you can try it without using a virtual environment. And are you using the latest version 1.1?
Do the example programs from this repository also fail?

[TomSchimansky]

Sorry, I deleted your post, because it showed up three times for me, but looks like it was just a ui bug 😅. Anyway your post was:

Hi Tom,

I'll answer your questions first!

I don't think I'm using a virtual environment: I'm using PyCharm in Windows to write to .py files directly on my drives.
I am using TkinterMapView version 1.1.
I've created a test file which just contains the script:

from tkinter import *
from tkinter import ttk
from tkintermapview import TkinterMapView

root = Tk()
root.title('Test')
root.geometry('1220x880+0+0')

agency_map = TkinterMapView(root, width=800, height=600, corner_radius=0)
agency_map.place(relx=0.5, rely=0.5, anchor=CENTER)

root.mainloop()

And it works fine...

Is it possible that importing TkinterMapView has messed with my imports? The test program has three imports (* from tkinter, ttk and TkinterMapView) but since I haven't used 'ttk', it is showing as greyed out in my IDE.

In the real program, however, I have several imports (* from tkinter, ttk, mysql.connector, TkinterMapView and 'form_fields' & 'settings' (two of my own source code files). The key difference I have noticed is that the line 'from tkinter import *' has been greyed out - I think this occurred after importing TkinterMapView.

[UniquePhilosophy]

Hi Tom!

Yeah no worries...

Anyway, I think I may have solved the issue for myself, but not sure why it occurred in the first place.

It's something to do with how images are called on Tkinter windows.

I know this because I fixed the problem by using the Tkinter.Toplevel function to create my top level window, instead of using the Tkinter.TK function.

Perhaps this isn't an issue with the map view and is actually just my lack of understanding of how images and windows work in Tkinter. Feel free to close this issue if that's the case.

Thanks for all your time and support - I'm going to use the **** out of this library! Haha

[TomSchimansky]

Okay that's great, yeah a second window should be created with Toplevel instead of Tk, I recently had a situation where also weird things happened by doing this.