[Pythonmac-SIG] Including images (jpg) in app bundle

[Daniel Miller]

On Aug 8, 2009, at 9:13 AM, Brendan Simon (eTRIX) wrote:

> I have a jpg image which is displayed in my wxPython app.  It is  
> loaded
> from an 'image' directory.
> eg. image/mypic.jpg
>
> This works fine when I type "python mywxapp" from the command line,  
> but
> when I build an app bundle it doesn't work.
> I've tried two options (see below).  Both copy the jpg to the  
> Resourses
> directory, but I loose the images/ directory.
>
> What's the best/appropriate way to get image files in the app ??   
> It has
> to work with manual invocation too.

Try this in setup.py, which will put the images in an 'images'  
subdirectory under Resources in your app bundle:

DATA_FILES = [ ('images', 'images/mypic.jpg') ]
OPTIONS = { 'argv_emulation' : True }


Then do something like this in your app:

imagedir = os.path.join(os.environ.get('RESOURCEPATH', '.'), 'images')
mypic = os.path.join(imagedir, 'mypic.jpg')


The RESOURCEPATH environment variable is set by py2app. If it exists,  
you can assume that the app is bundled and adjust the image path  
accordingly.

~ Daniel