pixmap
capabilities to all Tix and Tkinter widgets to
create color images from XPM files.
Compound
image types can be used to create images that consists of multiple
horizontal lines; each line is composed of a series of items (texts,
bitmaps, images or spaces) arranged from left to right. For example, a
compound image can be used to display a bitmap and a text string
simultaneously in a Tk Button widget.