[Tutor] Question about GUI applications.

[Steve Willoughby]

On 08-Nov-11 00:39, Alan Gauld wrote:
> On 08/11/11 04:30, Nathaniel Trujillo wrote:
>> I just wrote the following GUI application. How do I get rid of the 7k
>> in the upper left hand corner and how to I put other stuff there like
>> say a picture of someone. Thanks for the help.
>
> If you are using Windows I don't think you can, due to a bug in the
> underlying Tk libraries. If you are using Linux/MacOS then there is a
> function to replace the control icon.
>
> I can't recall what it is, but its similar to the one used for setting
> the title text on the Window, one of the wm_xxxxx calls.
>
> But you might get a better response asking on the Tkinter mailing list...
>

I have an app I'm developing and running successfully on Windows (as 
well as OSX and Linux).  At least in this case it is able to replace the 
application icon in place of the default "TK" one.  The code I use is:

root = Tkinter.Tk()
root.iconbitmap(default=ico_image_filename)

(on Linux I use root.iconbitmap(bitmap='@'+xbm_filename))


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