Transparent background in a Tkinter window

Question

Is there a way to create a "Loading Screen" in Python 3.x using Tkinter? I mean like the loading screen for Adobe Photoshop, with transparency and so on. I managed to get rid of the frame border already using:

root.overrideredirect(1)

But if I do this:

root.image = PhotoImage(file=pyloc+'\startup.gif')
label = Label(image=root.image)
label.pack()

the image displays fine, but with the grey window background instead of transparency.

Is there a way of adding transparency to a window, but still displaying the image correctly?

Answer 1

There is no cross-platform way to make just the background transparent in tkinter.