TkInter/McMillan installer question.

[Eric Brunel]

Aki Niimura wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I'm trying to create a MS-Windows executable from my Python Tkinter
> script using McMillan Installer script.
> 
> It worked very nicely. I was very amazed as I had so many disappointments
> with Python/Windows environment.
> 
> However, I tried to assign a icon file using --icon file.ico option. It
> didn't honor the option.
> Using --debug option, I found the following message:
> ignoring icon and version resources = platform not capable
> 
> I'm creating the exe file under Windows XP Home (with Cygwin).
> 
> Did anybody suceed to use --icon option under Windows XP?
> If the Installer cannot assign the icon, is there any way to assign
> the icon afterward?

Will you use a software installation utility to distribute your application? If 
you do, it's probably better to rely on this utility to assign icons to 
executables and documents. InnoSetup (http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php) does 
quite a good job for this.

HTH
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