Question

Ive created a program using pyqt4 as GUI Ive used resource file or .qrc to load background image.
My problem is when i compiled it using py2exe, the background image is not loaded.

here is the sample code.

GUI MODULE:

from PyQt4 import QtCore, QtGui
try:
    _fromUtf8 = QtCore.QString.fromUtf8
except AttributeError:
    _fromUtf8 = lambda s: s

class Ui_MainWindow(object):
    def setupUi(self, MainWindow):
        MainWindow.setObjectName(_fromUtf8("MainWindow"))
        MainWindow.resize(563, 319)
        self.centralwidget = QtGui.QWidget(MainWindow)
        self.centralwidget.setStyleSheet(_fromUtf8("background-image: url(:/test/mr_bean_kid.jpg);"))
        self.centralwidget.setObjectName(_fromUtf8("centralwidget"))
        MainWindow.setCentralWidget(self.centralwidget)
        self.menubar = QtGui.QMenuBar(MainWindow)
        self.menubar.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(0, 0, 563, 18))
        self.menubar.setObjectName(_fromUtf8("menubar"))
        MainWindow.setMenuBar(self.menubar)
        self.statusbar = QtGui.QStatusBar(MainWindow)
        self.statusbar.setObjectName(_fromUtf8("statusbar"))
        MainWindow.setStatusBar(self.statusbar)

        self.retranslateUi(MainWindow)
        QtCore.QMetaObject.connectSlotsByName(MainWindow)

    def retranslateUi(self, MainWindow):
        MainWindow.setWindowTitle(QtGui.QApplication.translate("MainWindow", "MainWindow", None, QtGui.QApplication.UnicodeUTF8))

import ss_rc

MAIN MODULE:

from sample import Ui_MainWindow
from PyQt4 import QtCore, QtGui


class test(QtGui.QMainWindow):
    def __init__(self, parent=None):
        QtGui.QWidget.__init__(self, parent)
        self.ui = Ui_MainWindow()
        self.ui.setupUi(self)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    import sys
    app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)
    myapp = test()
    myapp.show()
    sys.exit(app.exec_())

i will not include the qrc because its to long.
thx.

Answer 1

The solution to your problem can be found at the bottom of this page.

http://www.py2exe.org/index.cgi/Py2exeAndPyQt

When trying this solution, make sure you are not bundling all files into a single executable, that won’t work…