Re: [Py2exe-users] app icon not displaying correctly in Windows Vista

[Werner F. B. <wer...@fr...>]

Matthias,

Matthias Miller wrote:
> Jimmy Retzlaff wrote:
>> On 9/10/08 4:18 PM, "Mark Hammond" <mha...@sk...> wrote:
>>
>>   
>>>> le dahut wrote:
>>>>       
>>>>> Hello, I've tried the new build on several applications that didn't
>>>>> display the icon with Vista.
>>>>> They now do it correctly.
>>>>> This correction works for me !
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>
>>>>>         
>>>>>>> <snip>
>>>>>>>             
>>>>>>>> On 4/25/08 11:25 AM, "Thomas Heller" <th...@ct...> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>               
>>>>>>>>> It seems that using
>>>>>>>>> '1' instead of '0' at least does no harm, but it would be nice to
>>>>>>>>> have someone else on Vista confirm the problem and that your new
>>>>>>>>> patch fixes it:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Thomas
>>>>>>>>>                 
>>>> Any chance of getting this patch applied now that it's been duplicated?
>>>> I've attached the patch for reference.
>>>>       
>>> IIUC, this will give the first icon in the file an ID of 1, which will break
>>> a few of my apps.  I wouldn't have a problem with that if it was fixing a
>>> real problem - but I don't see it.  I'm using a py2exe app with multiple
>>> icons each with multiple images on vista without a problem.
>>>     
>>
>> I also tried to reproduce the problem on Vista (both 32 and 64-bit) with
>> several different ID variations and could not get it to fail. We need to
>> really understand the root cause of the problem before we try to fix it, and
>> we don't really understand the root cause unless we can make it fail at will
>> on different machines.
>>   
> 
> 
> I have attached a sample that duplicates the problem on my computer. 
> When I build it using the py2exe out of trunk, Windows Explorer shows a 
> default application icon for the executable. When I build it with the 
> patch, Windows Explorer shows the correct icon.
Just out of curiosity I copied your files to a folder and build it.

Looking at the generated dist folder shows the icon you included and not 
a default icon (see attached jpg).

I am on:
Vista 32 ultimate
Python 2.5.2
py2exe '0.6.6'

Haven't got around to upgrade to 0.6.8 yet.

Werner