wx.ToplevelWindow.SetIcon: Native MS Windows error dialog pops up in wxPython app, no exception raised, no stack trace

[kyosohma at gmail.com]

On Sep 13, 8:41 am, Laszlo Nagy <gand... at shopzeus.com> wrote:
> > See main.py of the Demo, line 1129. img2py is in the following default
> > location:
> > C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\wx-2.8-msw-unicode\wxPython\tools
>
> > Without seeing how you create the image, it's hard to troubleshoot,
> > but I would guess that you have an absolute path that you're using in
> > your script that is different than what the exe is looking for.
>
> I actually do have a wx.Icon instance loaded from a file. This problem
> is not about loading a file into a wx.Icon instance. This why I'm
> suprised about the message ("cannot load image file"). I already have
> both the icon and the top level window in memory. If I comment out the
>
> self.SetIcon(icon)
>
> line in my code then there is no error message (and no icon on the
> frame). The SetIcon method will call the Windows API at the end, and it
> has nothing to do with files. It accepts a window handle and a pointer
> to an icon resource. I cannot think about anything that would need to
> read from a file while setting the icon of the frame.  Moreover, the
> icon is showing on the frame, looks like there is no error, so why am I
> getting a message? It is not a python Exception, it pops out from
> nowhere. :-) I suspect it will be an internal error in wxWidgets or
> wxPython. But their mailing list is not working. :-(
>
> Thanks anyway.
>
>    Laszlo

I'm told the mailing list is now up. Sorry I wasn't more helpful.

Mike