Adding Icon To Tkinter Window - Followup

[Wildman]

On Sat, 05 Mar 2016 19:36:19 +0100, Christian Gollwitzer wrote:

> Am 05.03.16 um 19:10 schrieb Wildman:
>> On Sat, 05 Mar 2016 10:47:09 -0600, Wildman 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.
>>
>> I found this and it works in Linux but only with black
>> and white xbm images (I would prefer color):
>>
>>      root.wm_iconbitmap('@myicon.xbm')
> 
> iconphoto is the newer API for color icons. I am a bit surprised that it 
> is not wrapped in Tkinter, which is odd. You can still call it via eval:
> 
> import Tkinter
> from Tkinter import Tk
> root = Tk()
> img = Tkinter.Image("photo", file="appicon.gif")
> root.call('wm','iconphoto',root._w,img)

The above worked perfectly.  Thank you very much.

> If you Tk is recent enough (8.6, you can find out by doing 
> root.eval('info patchlevel')), you can use .png files in addition to 
> .gif. If you need to read other image files, look into PIL and ImageTk.
> 
> 	Christian

According to "root.eval('info patchlevel')" I have version 8.6.2.
PNG worked.  That is good because PNG is a common file type for
Linux icons.

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