py2exe Icon Resources

[Mike Driscoll]

On Apr 29, 3:24 pm, flarefi... at googlemail.com wrote:
> I have created an app using python and then converting it to an exe
> using py2exe, and have the following code:
>
> "icon_resources": [(1, "appFavicon.ico"), (2, "dataFavicon.ico")]
>
> in my py2exe setup file, the appFavicon works fine and it sets that as
> the app icon thats fine, but the program creates data files (like
> documents) and i wanted them to have a different icon...
>
> I package my apps using Inno Setup 5, and it registers the file type
> fine so that it loads on double click, what i cant do is set the icon
> for the file.
>
> as you can see i have packaged two different icons with py2exe but
> when i set DefaultIcon in the registry to "C:\pathtoapp\myapp.exe,2"
> it doesnt work, nor does it work with a 1 or a %1 or indeed with
> passing a path to the icon itself, nothing seems to work!!
>
> how do you access the other icons generated from py2exe, or how do you
> set the registry up so that i looks for the icon correctly,
>
> any help appreciated,
>
> Caspar

I recommend cross-posting this to the py2exe mailing list and maybe
the distutils mailing list if the fine people here don't have answers.

https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/py2exe-users

http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig

Mike