Tkinter resize background image to window size

Question

Trying to set up a background for my tkinter window. I have a square background image, which fades to black around the edges, and then the main window has a black background. The image is placed over the background, and if the window is wider than it is tall, the image centers itself in the middle over the black background, and it all looks very nice.

However when the window is smaller than the image in width and height, it puts the center of the image in the center of the window, so you don't see the whole image, and it looks a little odd. Is there a way of resizing the image so that if the largest of the width and height of the window is smaller than the image, the image is adjusted to that size, keeping aspect ratio.

So say the background image is 600x600:

• In a 800x400 window, the image does not resize, and centers itself vertically.
• In a 500x400 window, the image resizes to 500x500, and still centers itself vertically.
• In a 400x900 window, the image does not resize, and centers itself horizontally.

The centering functionality is already there, I just need the resize functionality.

Currently what I have is:

from tkinter import *

root = Tk()
root.title("Title")
root.geometry("600x600")
root.configure(background="black")

background_image = PhotoImage(file="Background.gif")

background = Label(root, image=background_image, bd=0)
background.pack()

root.mainloop()

Not sure if there is a way of doing this in tkinter? Or if perhaps I would write my own function that resizes the image according to the window size, however the image needs to resize relatively smoothly and quickly if the user resizes the window at any point.

Answer 1

This is example application that uses Pillow to resize image on the Label as the label changes size:

from tkinter import *

from PIL import Image, ImageTk

root = Tk()
root.title("Title")
root.geometry("600x600")
root.configure(background="black")



class Example(Frame):
    def __init__(self, master, *pargs):
        Frame.__init__(self, master, *pargs)



        self.image = Image.open("./resource/Background.gif")
        self.img_copy= self.image.copy()


        self.background_image = ImageTk.PhotoImage(self.image)

        self.background = Label(self, image=self.background_image)
        self.background.pack(fill=BOTH, expand=YES)
        self.background.bind('<Configure>', self._resize_image)

    def _resize_image(self,event):

        new_width = event.width
        new_height = event.height

        self.image = self.img_copy.resize((new_width, new_height))

        self.background_image = ImageTk.PhotoImage(self.image)
        self.background.configure(image =  self.background_image)



e = Example(root)
e.pack(fill=BOTH, expand=YES)


root.mainloop()

This is how it works using Lenna image as example: