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Re: Adding Icon To Tkinter Window

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On 3/5/2016 11:47 AM, Wildman via Python-list wrote:
> Anybody have the correct method of adding an icon to a
> window?  I have found several code examples on the web
> but they all result in an error.  Thanks.

No single simple statement work for all situations.  You should have 
specified OS, Python version, and tcl/tk version.  (IDLE's Help -> About 
IDLE displays full tk version).

Here is the current code from idlelib.PyShell, written by Serhiy 
Storchaka, our current tkinter maintainer.

     # set application icon
     icondir = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'Icons')
     if system() == 'Windows':
         iconfile = os.path.join(icondir, 'idle.ico')
         root.wm_iconbitmap(default=iconfile)
     elif TkVersion >= 8.5:
         ext = '.png' if TkVersion >= 8.6 else '.gif'
         iconfiles = [os.path.join(icondir, 'idle_%d%s' % (size, ext))
                      for size in (16, 32, 48)]
         icons = [PhotoImage(file=iconfile) for iconfile in iconfiles]
         root.wm_iconphoto(True, *icons)

Non-windows pre-8.5 systems remain stuck with the tk icon.

I just tried changing the 'if' line to 'if False:' on my 3.5.1 (8.6.4) 
windows install and the 2nd, wm_iconphoto block worked here also.  It 
may be that it did not work on windows with 8.5 and before.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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Adding Icon To Tkinter Window Wildman <best_lay@yahoo.com> - 2016-03-05 10:47 -0600
  Re: Adding Icon To Tkinter Window Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2016-03-05 18:08 +0000
    Re: Adding Icon To Tkinter Window Wildman <best_lay@yahoo.com> - 2016-03-05 12:47 -0600
    Re: Adding Icon To Tkinter Window Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2016-03-09 08:39 -0800
  Re: Adding Icon To Tkinter Window - Followup Wildman <best_lay@yahoo.com> - 2016-03-05 12:10 -0600
    Re: Adding Icon To Tkinter Window - Followup Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2016-03-05 19:36 +0100
      Re: Adding Icon To Tkinter Window - Followup Wildman <best_lay@yahoo.com> - 2016-03-05 23:53 -0600
        Re: Adding Icon To Tkinter Window - Followup Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2016-03-06 10:16 +0100
          Re: Adding Icon To Tkinter Window - Followup Wildman <best_lay@yahoo.com> - 2016-03-06 10:30 -0600
            Re: Adding Icon To Tkinter Window - Followup Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> - 2016-03-09 19:09 +0200
            RE: Adding Icon To Tkinter Window - Followup Joaquin Alzola <Joaquin.Alzola@lebara.com> - 2016-03-09 17:14 +0000
  Re: Adding Icon To Tkinter Window Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-03-05 18:38 +0000
    Re: Adding Icon To Tkinter Window Wildman <best_lay@yahoo.com> - 2016-03-05 12:50 -0600
  Re: Adding Icon To Tkinter Window Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> - 2016-03-05 21:55 +0200
    Re: Adding Icon To Tkinter Window Wildman <best_lay@yahoo.com> - 2016-03-05 23:56 -0600
  Re: Adding Icon To Tkinter Window Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2016-03-05 16:38 -0500
    Re: Adding Icon To Tkinter Window Wildman <best_lay@yahoo.com> - 2016-03-06 00:04 -0600
    Re: Adding Icon To Tkinter Window Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2016-03-09 08:41 -0800
  Re: Adding Icon To Tkinter Window Wildman <best_lay@yahoo.com> - 2016-03-06 00:09 -0600

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