Adding Icon To Tkinter Window - Followup

[Wildman]

On Sun, 06 Mar 2016 10:16:55 +0100, Christian Gollwitzer wrote:

> Am 06.03.16 um 06:53 schrieb Wildman:
>> On Sat, 05 Mar 2016 19:36:19 +0100, Christian Gollwitzer wrote:
>>> 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.
> 
> Then you should try if it works also with the last line replaced as
> 
> 	root.wm_iconphoto(True, img)

That does not work...

$ ./makexface.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./makexface.py", line 236, in <module>
    root.wm_iconphoto(True, img)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1897, in __getattr__
    return getattr(self.tk, attr)
AttributeError: wm_iconphoto

> (as Serhiy and Terry wrote). My system python which I used to test this 
> was just too old to wrap iconphoto, yours should be up to date.
> 
> 	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.
> 
> PS: 8.6.2 is from mid 2014, that's OK - though we've had a brand new 
> release (8.6.5) in February 2016

I am using the latest release that is offered in the Debian
repository but I will look into upgrading from other sources.

Thanks for the info.

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