PySide/Qt : .ico files not shown

[nio]

Hello,

My basic application based on Python 2.7.2+PySide+Qt on win7 is using some .ico files to create a toolbar.

The icons don't appear when running the executable created with PyInstaller (I tried the onfile and the onedir options), even if I'm manually copying them locally.

Can somebody help me solve this basic issue ?

Thanks!

Nicolas.

[Adrià Cereto Massagué]

Maybe you're missing a Qt plugin which gives support for .ico files. I've never used .ico files for icons, but I know that this happens too for .svg and .jpg files.
You must include the necessary Qt plugins. An alternative way is to use .png files, which are more portable and your final executable will be smaller, as you will need fewer dll files included.

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[nio]

Hello,

Thanks for your answer, but I don't understand at which level a Qt plugin would be missing ?
Where and how should I include a Qt plugin ? Is it inside my python script ?
Or should I explicitely declare a given Qt plugin to PyInstaller if it didn't detect it as a dependancy ?

My script is using basic functions involving icon files like:
self.setWindowIcon(QtGui.QIcon('calendar.ico'))
or
refreshAction = QtGui.QAction(QtGui.QIcon('refresh_icon.ico'), 'Refresh', self)

I can use png or another format, but I undestand that the problem will be the same.

I've tried to include all Qt .dll files inside my generated executable's directory but it didn't help...

Thanks for your help.

Nicolas.

On Sunday, March 18, 2012 1:26:39 PM UTC+1, Adrià Cereto Massagué wrote:

Maybe you're missing a Qt plugin which gives support for .ico files. I've never used .ico files for icons, but I know that this happens too for .svg and .jpg files.
You must include the necessary Qt plugins. An alternative way is to use .png files, which are more portable and your final executable will be smaller, as you will need fewer dll files included.

El 17 de març de 2012 6:41, nio <lordn...@gmail.com> ha escrit:

Hello,

My basic application based on Python 2.7.2+PySide+Qt on win7 is using some .ico files to create a toolbar.

The icons don't appear when running the executable created with PyInstaller (I tried the onfile and the onedir options), even if I'm manually copying them locally.

Can somebody help me solve this basic issue ?

Thanks!

Nicolas.

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[Martin Zibricky]

Hi nicolas,

PySide is not officially supported yet. Two users forked pyinstaller on
github to work on pyside support. For details see

http://www.pyinstaller.org/ticket/498

nio píše v Út 20. 03. 2012 v 09:54 -0700:

[Adrià Cereto Massagué]

El 20 de març de 2012 17:54, nio <lordn...@gmail.com> ha escrit:

Hello,

Thanks for your answer, but I don't understand at which level a Qt plugin would be missing ?
Where and how should I include a Qt plugin ? Is it inside my python script ?
Or should I explicitely declare a given Qt plugin to PyInstaller if it didn't detect it as a dependancy ?

My script is using basic functions involving icon files like:
self.setWindowIcon(QtGui.QIcon('calendar.ico'))
or
refreshAction = QtGui.QAction(QtGui.QIcon('refresh_icon.ico'), 'Refresh', self)

I can use png or another format, but I undestand that the problem will be the same.

That's the case with gif and svg icons, but png is a built-in image format, so you won't need any plugins for it.
 

I've tried to include all Qt .dll files inside my generated executable's directory but it didn't help...

You must play with QCoreApplication.addLibraryPath() and add a plugins directory containing the needed Qt plugins. Google around for how to do it for .svg or .gif icons, somewhere there's a recipe about how to do it.

Other possible approach is to build Qt statically, so that everything will be built-in, with nos eparate plugins.
I personally use always png icons to simplify distribution.
 

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[nio]

Thanks, I should be able to handle it now! (^_^)

Best regards,

Nicolas.