Why isn't .ico file defined when setting window's icon?

Question

When I tried to change the window icon in the top left corner from the ugly red \"TK\" to my own favicon using the code below, Python threw an error:

from tk         


        

Answer 1

#!/usr/bin/env python
import tkinter as tk

class AppName(tk.Frame):
    def __init__(self, master=None):
        tk.Frame.__init__(self, master)
        self.grid()
        self.createWidgets()

    def createWidgets(self):
        self.quitButton = tk.Button(self, text='Quit', command=self.quit)
        self.quitButton.grid()

app = AppName()
app.master.title('Title here ...!')
app.master.iconbitmap('icon.ico')
app.mainloop()

it should work like this !

Answer 2

Try this:

from tkinter import *
import os
import sys

root = Tk()
root.iconbitmap(os.path.join(sys.path[0], '<your-ico-file>'))

root.mainloop()

Note: replace <your-ico-file> with the name of the ico file you are using otherwise it won't work.

I have tried this in Python 3. It worked.

Answer 3

So it looks like root.iconbitmap() only supports a fixed directory.
sys.argv[0] returns the directory that the file was read from so a simple code would work to create a fixed directory.

import sys
def get_dir(src):
    dir = sys.argv[0]
    dir = dir.split('/')
    dir.pop(-1)
    dir = '/'.join(dir)
    dir = dir+'/'+src
    return dir

This is the output

>>> get_dir('test.txt')
'C:/Users/Josua/Desktop/test.txt'

EDIT:
The only issue is that this method dosn't work on linux

josua@raspberrypi:~ $ python
Python 2.7.9 (default, Sep 17 2016, 20:26:04) [GCC 4.9.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import sys
>>> sys.argv[0]
''
>>>

Answer 4

Make sure the .ico file isn't corrupted as well. I got the same error which went away when I tried a different .ico file.

Answer 5

No way what is suggested here works - the error "bitmap xxx not defined" is ever present. And yes, I set the correct path to it.

What it did work is this:

imgicon = PhotoImage(file=os.path.join(sp,'myicon.gif'))
root.tk.call('wm', 'iconphoto', root._w, imgicon)  

where sp is the script path, and root the Tk root window.

It's hard to understand how it does work (I shamelessly copied it from fedoraforums) but it works

Answer 6

Got stuck on that too...

Finally managed to set the icon i wanted using the following code:

from tkinter import *
root.tk.call('wm', 'iconphoto', root._w, PhotoImage(file='resources/icon.png'))