app file the proxy icon will be that app. You can drag the icon, and that will move the file. If you right click a file and select get info, the window that popes up has an icon. Tkinter.iconbitmap creates a proxy icon on mac which is a shortcut to that file. (The dist folder should have been created in step three when you ran the command)įor windows users: py2app is not what should be used, instead use py2exe.
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Navigate to the dictionary your code is in/dist. Note: You may need to use the command python3 setup.py py2. When you are done developing, rerun the command, this time without the -A, like so: python setup.py py2app The -A makes the app respond to updates in the code, but makes the app unsharable. Then open the bash terminal in the dictionary the file is in and type this command: python setup.py py2app -A Name='Your app’s name', #change to anything 'iconfile': 'app.icns', #change app.icns to the image file name!!! #APP would be the name of the file your code is in.
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You can download it with another command: sudo easy_install pipĬreate a file called setup.py in the same dictionary If not, one problem might be you don’t have pip.
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I will also sum up how to do the process.Įnter this into the command prompt: sudo pip install -U py2app You can read the py2app documentation here, or read a non-official but easier to understand (in my opinion) tutorial here. When using tkinter this is usually what you want in the end because GUIs are usually turned into apps for ease of use. app, meaning it runs as an application (because it is). Note that there might be a better way, but this will work. However, it does come with some unrelated benefits. Important Note: This method is long and a lot of work for the task at hand. If the above documentations is accurate it should also work on MAC. I did test this on windows to make sure it at least works there. Use the largest icon they can support (preferably 512 pixels) to Sizes/resolutions on macOS is outside Tk's scope. At the script level the command will accept only theįirst image passed in the parameters as support for multiple On Macintosh, the first image called is loaded into an OSX-native iconįormat, and becomes the application icon in dialogs, the Dock, and It is recommended to use not more than 2 icons, On X, the images are arranged into the _NET_WM_ICON X property, which Override an ico specified to wm iconbitmap, and vice versa. The images are packed into a Windows icon structure. Manager may scale provided icons to an appropriate size. Images sizes (e.g., 16x16 and 32x32) to be provided. Multiple images are accepted to allow different If the images are later changed, this is not reflected to The data in the images is taken as a snapshot at the time of Specified, this is applied to all future created toplevels as well. Icon for window based on the named photo images. Wm iconphoto window ?-default? image1 ?image2. Here is the relevant text from the documentation here: Root.tk.call('wm','iconphoto', root._w, img)
# root.iconphoto(True, img) # you may also want to try this. I am unable to test it myself due to not having Mac. I do not have MAC so I cannot test this but give this a shot and let me know if it helped.Īs pointed out you may want to try root.iconphoto(True, img). It appears it may support OSX and it also mentions to set the file to around a 512x512 for smooth rendering in MAC. According to the tk tcl documentation you may want to try wm iconphoto.
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