Bitmaps and Images
The label and all the button widgets have an image attribute that specifies a graphic image to display. Using an image takes two steps. In the first step the image is created via the image create command. This command returns an identifier for the image, and it is this identifier that is passed to widgets as the value of their image attribute.
Example 38-3 Specifying an image for a widget.
set im [image create bitmap \ -file glyph.bitmap -maskfile glyph.mask \ -background white -foreground blue] button .foo -image $im |
There are three things that can be displayed by labels and all the buttons: text, bitmaps, and images. If more than one of these attributes are specified, then the image has priority over the bitmap, and the ...
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