Embedded Program Icon (wxPython)

[Bart]

On Nov 29, 10:14 pm, Mike Driscoll <kyoso... at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 = \
>
> > """iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACAAAAAgCAYAAABzenr0AAAABHNCSVQICAgIfAhkiAAAATlJ REFUWIXNl2FyhCAMhV
> > +0B/NmCzfrHkxff+zSik0gCI77ZhwdCckHQoIi04w7Nd0a/
> > WMBuK0cHcjyKdYa4LZSplmanBXsrTYTQOvonZljHys4AHx5HWVgTBx5syjWpeBVgN+A75H/
> > BTbsmEBe9rXgQNcuqPp2qQqgj74cPJl61sxn5oGyxkx9B8BYZQDcVqbL7kLEGP691d55fGfb0LN tzsr0LdNcvQAQAPcKIZAESWTP5MsWAD2+b18DxVqwl5YPYowAgMcj7By
> > +787P2T0D+
> > +Bn5AZIIxKt4iSbxtE3AVylywFq9cBdjADf1B5tZJqlBFEEsE4zaR0sy4Ln8xsxBvUw4oEwAWpH qVZZEOap
> > +Iq0rPlUAa6sCS6AkrR8EELI2pr8nfk3bP0vGA5wBOn5ZF0AI3R7Kv4BLsO1PPzEcJMAAAAASUV ORK5CYII="""
> >     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

Thanks a lot Mike!

In Dutch we would say 'handig'! (Translated as 'handy')
Your fine example was what I was looking for the whole day :)

I tried this thing for my self but my 'img2py.py' gives indeed an
other script (see below). To make this new version of 'myIcon.py' work
with your sample script 'embed_icons3.py', you've to change the last
line of 'myIcon.py':

getpyIcon = py.GetIcon

,into

getIcon = py.GetIcon

That piece of code in my previous post was a collection of code
snippets I found in all different kind of examples. Your way, I think,
is much more elegant. Actually, simple.

Regards,

Bart



Script of myIcon.py generated with the new version of img2py.py
(Version: wxPython 2.8.9.1 for Python 2.5)

# myIcon.py
#
#----------------------------------------------------------------------
# This file was generated by C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\wx-2.8-msw-
unicode\wx\tools\img2py.py
#
from wx.lib.embeddedimage import PyEmbeddedImage

py = PyEmbeddedImage(
 
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    "+C7++9vxX9DXCWOvj7llAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC")
getpyData = py.GetData
getpyImage = py.GetImage
getpyBitmap = py.GetBitmap
getIcon = py.GetIcon