Question

I’m trying to make an exe by py2exe. The program is showing a popup-like window using Tkinter. The problem is, everything works fine when I run the setup like this:

setup(windows = [{'script': "msg.py"}], zipfile = None)

but it fails when I try to make an one-file exe:

setup(windows = [{'script': "msg.py"}], zipfile = None, options = {'py2exe': {'bundle_files': 1, 'compressed': True}})

Actually the final exe runs without problems, but it doesn’t display any window. I’ve read there may be problems with bundle_files=1 at Windows 7, but I also tried bundle_files=2 with the same effect.
Here is my msg.py script:

from win32gui import FindWindow, SetForegroundWindow
from Image import open as iopen
from ImageTk import PhotoImage
from Tkinter import Tk, Label
from threading import Timer
from subprocess import Popen
import os

def Thread(t, fun, arg=None):
    if arg<>None: x = Timer(t, fun, arg)
    else: x = Timer(t, fun)
    x.daemon = True
    x.start()

def NewMessage():
    global root
    if not os.path.exists('dane/MSG'):
        open('dane/MSG', 'w').write('')
        root = Tk()
        img = PhotoImage(iopen("incl/nowa.png"))
        label = Label(root, image=img)
        label.image = img
        label.bind("<Button-1>", Click)
        label.pack()
        root.geometry('-0-40')
        root.wm_attributes("-topmost", 1)
        root.overrideredirect(1)
        root.mainloop()

def Click(event):
    global root, exit
    root.destroy()
    os.remove('dane/MSG')
    OpenApp()
    exit = True

def OpenApp():
    hwnd = FindWindow(None, 'My program name')
    if hwnd: SetForegroundWindow(hwnd)
    else: Popen('app.exe')

root, exit = None, False
NewMessage()

Any ideas? I’ve read there are some problems with Tkinter, but there were about compilation. My script is compiled and it doesn’t throw any exceptions, but doesn’t show the window…

Answer 1

I ended up encountering this same issue, my solution involved doing the following:

Add
"dll_excludes": ["tcl85.dll", "tk85.dll"],

in your options = {...}

and then manually copy those two DLLs from

PYTHON_PATH\DLLs\ (in my case C:\Python27\DLLs)

to the location of your exe and try running it.