Embedded Program Icon (wxPython)

[Mike Driscoll]

On Nov 29, 2:30 pm, Bart <bartwe... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear members,
> It's not (yet) easy to find my way through the bunch of info scattered
> over the internet to find out how to embed an icon. It could be that
> I’m looking at the wrong places, I'm new to Python and wxPython.
> Nevertheless, I would like to share this little script with the rest
> of the world. Any suggestions are welcome!
>
> Regards,
> Bart
>
> import wx
> import cStringIO
> import base64
>
> def getImageStream():
>     img_b64 = \
>
> """iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACAAAAAgCAYAAABzenr0AAAABHNCSVQICAgIfAhkiAAAATlJREFUWIXNl2FyhCAMhV
> +0B/NmCzfrHkxff+zSik0gCI77ZhwdCckHQoIi04w7Nd0a/
> WMBuK0cHcjyKdYa4LZSplmanBXsrTYTQOvonZljHys4AHx5HWVgTBx5syjWpeBVgN+A75H/
> BTbsmEBe9rXgQNcuqPp2qQqgj74cPJl61sxn5oGyxkx9B8BYZQDcVqbL7kLEGP691d55fGfb0LNtzsr0LdNcvQAQAPcKIZAESWTP5MsWAD2+b18DxVqwl5YPYowAgMcj7By
> +787P2T0D+
> +Bn5AZIIxKt4iSbxtE3AVylywFq9cBdjADf1B5tZJqlBFEEsE4zaR0sy4Ln8xsxBvUw4oEwAWpHqVZZEOap
> +Iq0rPlUAa6sCS6AkrR8EELI2pr8nfk3bP0vGA5wBOn5ZF0AI3R7Kv4BLsO1PPzEcJMAAAAASUVORK5CYII="""
>     img = base64.b64decode(img_b64)
>     return img
>
> class MyFrame(wx.Frame):
>     def __init__(self, parent, id, caption):
>         wx.Frame.__init__(self, parent, id, caption)
>
>         myStream = cStringIO.StringIO(getImageStream())
>         myImage = wx.ImageFromStream(myStream)
>         myBitmap = wx.BitmapFromImage(myImage)
>
>         myIcon = wx.EmptyIcon()
>         myIcon.CopyFromBitmap(myBitmap)
>         self.SetIcon(myIcon)
>
> app = wx.PySimpleApp()
> frame = MyFrame(None, -1, "Embedded Programm Icon Sample")
> frame.Show(True)
> app.MainLoop()

wxPython provides the img2py utility for this sort of thing. On my
Windows box, it was here:

L:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\wx-2.8-msw-unicode\wx\tools

You can read up on how to use it here:

http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/?p=34

Unfortunately, that article is a little dated. The newest version of
wxPython includes an updated img2py utility that I'm told supports the
previous API, but I haven't tested it. One of these days, I'll have to
update that post to reflect the new way though...

Glad you found an alternate way to do it though. I recommend
subscribing to the wxPython group. They can give you additional
pointers, should you need them: http://wxpython.org/maillist.php

Mike