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OpenLoop · Mar 9th, 2008, 5:46 PM

I tried that and it seems to work... I was calling self.SetIcon(self, favicon) and it complained about the arguments but my real issue was reading the icon from a file.

I really don't understand the 'self' keyword. I try to think of it as 'this' in C++, but why does every function of a class has to have it as first argument in the definition, but then when you call it you have to omit the first argument? It's just a confusing way to do things!

Back to the icon issue, this is unrelated but if anyone out there is looking for a way to set the icon of an exe file when using py2exe, here's how your setup.py should look like:

 PYTHON Syntax (Toggle Plain Text) 
from distutils.core import setup
import py2exe
 
setup(
    windows = [
         {
                "script": "Datetool.pyw",
             "icon_resources": [(1, "icon.ico")]
         }   
    ],
)
from distutils.core import setup
import py2exe

setup(
    windows = [
         {
                "script": "Datetool.pyw",
             "icon_resources": [(1, "icon.ico")]
         }   
    ],
)

Mar 9th, 2008, 5:46 PM	#6
OpenLoop Expert Programmer Join Date: May 2005 Location: East Lansing, MI Posts: 663 Rep Power: 4	Re: Set application Icon wxPython I tried that and it seems to work... I was calling self.SetIcon(self, favicon) and it complained about the arguments but my real issue was reading the icon from a file. I really don't understand the 'self' keyword. I try to think of it as 'this' in C++, but why does every function of a class has to have it as first argument in the definition, but then when you call it you have to omit the first argument? It's just a confusing way to do things! Back to the icon issue, this is unrelated but if anyone out there is looking for a way to set the icon of an exe file when using py2exe, here's how your setup.py should look like: PYTHON Syntax (Toggle Plain Text) from distutils.core import setup import py2exe setup( windows = [ { "script": "Datetool.pyw", "icon_resources": [(1, "icon.ico")] } ], ) from distutils.core import setup import py2exe setup( windows = [ { "script": "Datetool.pyw", "icon_resources": [(1, "icon.ico")] } ], )