How to set icon on wxFrame?

Question

How can I add an icon (.ico file) to a wxFrame?

I was looking in the docs but can't find any mention of icon.

Thanks!

Solution 1

I tried this setting in py2exe setup file, but it didn't do anything:

windows = [
        {
            "script": "myscript.py",
            "icon_resources": [(1, "icon.ico")]
        }
    ],

But this ended up working. Self is wx.Frame instance:

icon = wx.EmptyIcon()
icon.CopyFromBitmap(wx.Bitmap("icon.ico", wx.BITMAP_TYPE_ANY))
self.SetIcon(icon)

Hope this helps some others.

Solution 2

Phoenix wxpython:

frame.SetIcon(wx.Icon("path/to/app.ico"))

Classic wxpython:

frame.SetIcon(wx.IconFromLocation("path/to/app.ico"))

Comments

[otterb]

I do both for my app. For py2exe packaged app to show an icon on windows task bar, it's good idea to set an icon file with multiple sizes embedded. But, wx.Frame will need wx.Bitmap stuff.

[Marcel Stör]

wx.IconFromBitmap(wx.Bitmap("icon.ico", wx.BITMAP_TYPE_ANY)) is a shortcut for that.

[Sam Ginrich]

@admin saw this is python domain, can be removed