Question

I was looking at Removing the TK icon on a Tkinter window but when trying to duplicate the code I encountered an error. Below is the code and error

from Tkinter import *
import Image, ImageTk
import sys

def quit(self):
    self.root.destroy()

root = Tk()
root.title("GUI program")
root.iconbitmap(default="C:\easy\Pics\ILC.ico")
im = Image.open("C:\easy\Pics\No-Image-Available.jpg")

image1 = ImageTk.PhotoImage(im)

# root has no image argument, so use a label as a panel
panel1 = Label(root, image=image1)
panel1.pack(side='top', fill='both', expand='yes')

root.mainloop()

Here is a copy of the error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\easy\python\IPcam\test_image.py", line 11, in <module>
root.iconbitmap(default="C:\\easy\\Pics\\transparent.ico")
File "C:\Python25\lib\lib-tk\Tkinter.py", line 1524, in wm_iconbitmap
return self.tk.call('wm', 'iconbitmap', self._w, '-default', default)
TclError: bitmap "C:\easy\Pics\transparent.ico" not defined

I followed all of the steps. Any ideas?

Answer 1

I’ve executed your example and it works ok for me.

I can simulate your error when I use a wrong path for the ico file. Did you double-check that "C:\\easy\\Pics\\transparent.ico" exists?

There is also two potential mistakes in your code:

1) Use '\\' or a raw string the path:

im = Image.open(r"C:\easy\Pics\No-Image-Available.jpg")

2) Don’t forget to run the tk main loop at the end

root.mainloop()

I hope it helps