PyQt/PySide - icon display

Question

I have a PySide app which has an icon for the MainWindow (a QMainWindow instance). When I run the file normally, the icon is visible and everything

Answer 1

I had the same problem. After some investigation I found a solution: (Macke had the right idea)

cx_freeze does not copy the PyQt plugins directory, which contains the ico image reader. Here are the steps:

1. in setup.py copy the PyQt4 plugins directory to your distribution
2. In your code write something like:

application_path = os.path.split(os.path.abspath(sys.argv[0]))[0]
try:
   if sys.frozen:
        plugin_path = os.path.join(application_path, "qtplugins")
        app.addLibraryPath(plugin_path)
except AttributeError:
    pass