[Tkinter] tkinter: after issue

[edwin6938]

Hi

i have a problem with a frame gathering an image that i update every 2s. It through me the error:

invalid command name "3186233555656<lambda>"
    while executing
"3186233555656<lambda>"
    ("after" script)

My code is the following:

class MainCanvas(tk.Frame):
    
    def __init__(self,container,directory,...):
        ...
        self.directory=directory
        self.container=container

        self.canvas = tk.Canvas(self.container)
        img=Image.open(self.directory)
        self.photo=ImageTk.PhotoImage(img.resize(self.resolution, Image.ANTIALIAS))
        self.canvas.image=self.photo
        self.imageCreated = self.canvas.create_image(0, 0, anchor=NW, image=self.photo)
        self.canvas.grid(...)
         
    def change_image(self,list_directory,index):
        directory=list_directory[index]
        img=Image.open(directory)
        
        if index==2:
            nextindex=0
        else:
            nextindex=index+1
                
        self.photo=ImageTk.PhotoImage(img.resize(self.resolution, Image.ANTIALIAS))
        self.canvas.itemconfig(self.imageCreated,image=self.photo)
        self.canvas.after(2000, lambda:self.change_image(list_directory, nextindex ))

For me maybe the problem could come from the "loop", but i don't know how to solve it.

Thanks for your help

[Larz60+]

you could write your timer as a method, and have it call your change image upon completion like example below

example replace None with your method:

import tkinter as tk
from datetime import datetime


class TkSimpleTimer:
    def __init__(self, parent):
        self.parent = parent


    def timeit(self, t_time):
        start_time = datetime.now().strftime("%H:%M:%S:%f")
        print(f"\nTimer started at: {start_time}, will delay {t_time} ms")
        self.parent.after(t_time, None)
        end_time = datetime.now().strftime("%H:%M:%S:%f")
        print(f"Timer finished at: {end_time}")

if __name__ == '__main__':
    root = tk.Tk()
    tst = TkSimpleTimer(root)
    for i in range(5):
        # time is in miliseconds
        tst.timeit(i*1000)
    root.destroy()
    root.mainloop()

Output:
Timer started at: 12:37:38:872230, will delay 0 ms
Timer finished at: 12:37:38:872285

Timer started at: 12:37:38:872302, will delay 1000 ms
Timer finished at: 12:37:39:873420

Timer started at: 12:37:39:873499, will delay 2000 ms
Timer finished at: 12:37:41:874964

Timer started at: 12:37:41:875117, will delay 3000 ms
Timer finished at: 12:37:44:875973

Timer started at: 12:37:44:876150, will delay 4000 ms
Timer finished at: 12:37:48:876959