Adding Icon To Tkinter Window

[Wildman]

On Sat, 05 Mar 2016 16:38:08 -0500, Terry Reedy wrote:

> On 3/5/2016 11:47 AM, Wildman via Python-list 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.
> 
> No single simple statement work for all situations.  You should have 
> specified OS, Python version, and tcl/tk version.  (IDLE's Help -> About 
> IDLE displays full tk version).
> 
> Here is the current code from idlelib.PyShell, written by Serhiy 
> Storchaka, our current tkinter maintainer.
> 
>      # set application icon
>      icondir = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'Icons')
>      if system() == 'Windows':
>          iconfile = os.path.join(icondir, 'idle.ico')
>          root.wm_iconbitmap(default=iconfile)
>      elif TkVersion >= 8.5:
>          ext = '.png' if TkVersion >= 8.6 else '.gif'
>          iconfiles = [os.path.join(icondir, 'idle_%d%s' % (size, ext))
>                       for size in (16, 32, 48)]
>          icons = [PhotoImage(file=iconfile) for iconfile in iconfiles]
>          root.wm_iconphoto(True, *icons)
> 
> Non-windows pre-8.5 systems remain stuck with the tk icon.
> 
> I just tried changing the 'if' line to 'if False:' on my 3.5.1 (8.6.4) 
> windows install and the 2nd, wm_iconphoto block worked here also.  It 
> may be that it did not work on windows with 8.5 and before.

I appreciate your reply.  Your code looks interesting but it
is over my head right now.  I will save it for further study
and experimentation.  Right now my problem was fixed by using
the code posted by Mr. Gollwitzer.

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