Thanks for the info....IT WORKS!!
import py2exe.py2exe_util
py2exe.py2exe_util.update_icon( U'wininst.exe', U'myicon.ico', 1 )
the little code snippet above will change the ico for a *.exe but deletes any other resources.
The last parameter is a flag which specifies whether to delete existing resources or not. Setting it to 0 should keep them intact.
Doing this the seems to not modify the right resource...or maybe I just need to work out exactly which resource it is that I need to mod...
This includes the attached zip archive in the produced installers... so my assumption is that the archive is appended as a resource.
No, it isn't. It it simply appended to the exe-file, look into bdist_wininst.py to see how it's done.
Other resources present in wininst.exe are the dialogs needed for the gui.
Okay I had seen what was done in with appending the data - I assumed that it was simply faking up an entry in the exe's resource table.
So my guess is that I will have to modify the exe pre- building the distro package. I may do it by making a temporary copy of the wininst.exe before adding the zip archive and modify this temporary version - so as not to change the version in the main python dir.
I guess you can do it by subclassing the bdist_wininst class in bdist_wininst.py - read the sources.
I haven't done much testing with it - including whether the modified installer work but the ico is modified happily - the one potential issue I could see is if the more resources exist within the installer other than
That was my plan... the
basic installer icon as this code delete's all reasources in the file.
When I have a working sample - that doesn't need py2exe installed - I will make it available by posting here - incase you want to put the functionality into the official version.
Cool.
Although I think my first version will simply use the stuff from py2exe - testing for it's presence... this might be the best solution anyway - as why would I want to re-invent the wheel...;) -- Phil "Requirements - what are they I just hack something together that does what I think they want" ;)