Diff for "CustomIcons"

⇤ ← Revision 15 as of 2004-09-22 14:34:05 →

Size: 2271

Editor: pc-136-15

Comment: added simpler (newer?) way of setting app icon

← Revision 16 as of 2004-10-04 11:13:33 → ⇥

Size: 2

Editor: 195

Comment:

Deletions are marked like this.

Additions are marked like this.

Icons are added as {{{icon_resources}}}

{{{
setup(
    windows = [
        {
            "script": "with_gui.py",
            "icon_resources": [(1, "myicon.ico")]
        }
    ],
)
}}}

The same practice works as well for {{{console}}} and {{{windows}}} scripts.
The resource number does not seem to matter. Windows just takes the first existing icon.

/!\ if somebody knows how to add small and large icons, speak up...

Hm, doesn't the {{{.ico}}} file contain them?

does the resource number refers to the icon's index in the {{{.ico}}} file (if containing > 1 icons) ?

-- [mailto:dswsh@plasa.com dody wijaya]

'''How to add small and large icons'''

You must create ico file with two icons in one.
Your icon file must contain small ico (size: 16*16 pixels) and large ico (size: 32*32 pixels). For WindowsXP you probably may create a big ico (48*48) - but it's only for XP.
Almost all popular icon editors can create complex icon with small and large part in one. For instance, [http://www.x2studios.com/index.php?page=products&id=11 LiquidIcon] is a freeware icon editor that lets you combine multiple ico files of different sizes and bit-depths into a single ico file. Also available is [http://www.winterdrache.de/freeware/png2ico/ png2ico], a GPL'ed command line-only {{{.ico}}} creator capable of generating icons with multiple sizes, bit depths, and transparency settings.

Now I've managed to give an icon to my program, but when the program starts, a standard Windows icon shows up in the window's title bar and in the task bar button (instead of my custom icon). Is there a way I can fix that myself, or is that a current limitation of py2exe?

As far as putting icons on your window itself (above is just for the file in explorer I think) it depends on the gui library you are using.
For wxWindows 2.4 it would be something like this where self is a wx.Frame derived class instance
Example: {{{
#!python
    _icon = wx.EmptyIcon()
    _icon.CopyFromBitmap(wx.Bitmap("MyIcon.ico", wx.BITMAP_TYPE_ANY))
    self.SetIcon(_icon)
}}}

The following also works, at least in wxPython 2.5.2.8 and other recent ones. {{{
#!python
    _icon = wx.Icon('MyIcon.ico', wx.BITMAP_TYPE_ICO)
    self.SetIcon(_icon)
}}}

-  ⇤ ← Revision 15 as of 2004-09-22 14:34:05 → 
  Size: 2271
  Editor: pc-136-15
  Comment: added simpler (newer?) way of setting app icon
+   ← Revision 16 as of 2004-10-04 11:13:33 → ⇥
  Size: 2
  Editor: 195
  Comment:
-Deletions are marked like this.
+Additions are marked like this.
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-Icons are added as {{{icon_resources}}}
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+Line 2:
-{{{
setup( 
    windows = [
        {
            "script": "with_gui.py",
            "icon_resources": [(1, "myicon.ico")]
        }
    ],
)
}}}

The same practice works as well for {{{console}}} and {{{windows}}} scripts.
The resource number does not seem to matter. Windows just takes the first existing icon.

/!\ if somebody knows how to add small and large icons, speak up...

Hm, doesn't the {{{.ico}}} file contain them?

does the resource number refers to the icon's index in the {{{.ico}}} file (if containing > 1 icons) ?

-- [mailto:dswsh@plasa.com dody wijaya]


'''How to add small and large icons'''

You must create ico file with two icons in one.
Your icon file must contain small ico (size: 16*16 pixels) and large ico (size: 32*32 pixels). For WindowsXP you probably may create a big ico (48*48) - but it's only for XP.
Almost all popular icon editors can create complex icon with small and large part in one.  For instance, [http://www.x2studios.com/index.php?page=products&id=11 LiquidIcon] is a freeware icon editor that lets you combine multiple ico files of different sizes and bit-depths into a single ico file.  Also available is [http://www.winterdrache.de/freeware/png2ico/ png2ico], a GPL'ed command line-only {{{.ico}}} creator capable of generating icons with multiple sizes, bit depths, and transparency settings.

Now I've managed to give an icon to my program, but when the program starts, a standard Windows icon shows up in the window's title bar and in the task bar button (instead of my custom icon).  Is there a way I can fix that myself, or is that a current limitation of py2exe?

As far as putting icons on your window itself (above is just for the file in explorer I think) it depends on the gui library you are using.
For wxWindows 2.4 it would be something like this where self is a wx.Frame derived class instance
Example: {{{
#!python
    _icon = wx.EmptyIcon()
    _icon.CopyFromBitmap(wx.Bitmap("MyIcon.ico", wx.BITMAP_TYPE_ANY))
    self.SetIcon(_icon)
}}}

The following also works, at least in wxPython 2.5.2.8 and other recent ones. {{{
#!python
    _icon = wx.Icon('MyIcon.ico', wx.BITMAP_TYPE_ICO)
    self.SetIcon(_icon)
}}}