Question

What’s a good way to generate an icon in-memory in python? Right now I’m forced to use pygame to draw the icon, then I save it to disk as an .ico file, and then I load it from disk as an ICO resource…

Something like this:

    if os.path.isfile(self.icon):         icon_flags = win32con.LR_LOADFROMFILE | win32con.LR_DEFAULTSIZE         hicon = win32gui.LoadImage(hinst,                                    self.icon,                                    win32con.IMAGE_ICON,                                    0,                                    0,                                    icon_flags) 

…where self.icon is the filename of the icon I created.

Is there any way to do this in memory? EDIT: All I want to do is create an icon with a 2-digit number displayed on it (weather-taskbar style.

Answer 1

You can use wxPython for this.

from wx import EmptyIcon icon = EmptyIcon() icon.CopyFromBitmap(your_wxBitmap) 

The wxBitmap can be generated in memory using wxMemoryDC, look here for operations you can do on a DC.

This icon can then be applied to a wxFrame (a window) or a wxTaskBarIcon using:

frame.SetIcon(icon)