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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