best way to create icons and serialize?

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Howdy again,

I have a wx.TreeCtrl which I need to incorporate some custom transparent icons. I don't want to drag image
files around, so I'm looking to create images and store them in the code, like in demos/images.py or the mondrian
image in demo/AUI_DockingWindowMgr.py.

The question is: how do I do this? I don't even know where to begin. I don't understand the process
flow. Image editor->png->serialize->???

Any help getting me off the ground would be appreciated including open source tools to do the image creation.

thanks,
Danny

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Danny Shevitz wrote:

Howdy again,

I have a wx.TreeCtrl which I need to incorporate some custom transparent icons. I don't want to drag image
files around, so I'm looking to create images and store them in the code, like in demos/images.py or the mondrian
image in demo/AUI_DockingWindowMgr.py.

The question is: how do I do this? I don't even know where to begin. I don't understand the process
flow. Image editor->png->serialize->???

Any help getting me off the ground would be appreciated including open source tools to do the image creation.

There is a img2py script included with wxPython, (img2py.bat on Windows.) It uses the modules in the wx.tools package.

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cool!

Next stupid question: what tool would you use to create the bitmap in the first place?

D

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At 03:26 PM 1/11/2007 -0800, you wrote:

Danny Shevitz wrote:

Howdy again,
I have a wx.TreeCtrl which I need to incorporate some custom transparent icons. I don't want to drag image
files around, so I'm looking to create images and store them in the code, like in demos/images.py or the mondrian
image in demo/AUI_DockingWindowMgr.py.
The question is: how do I do this? I don't even know where to begin. I don't understand the process
flow. Image editor->png->serialize->???
Any help getting me off the ground would be appreciated including open source tools to do the image creation.

There is a img2py script included with wxPython, (img2py.bat on Windows.) It uses the modules in the wx.tools package.

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Software Craftsman
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Danny Shevitz wrote:

Next stupid question: what tool would you use to create the bitmap in the first place?

Any number of icon/image editors -- there are a million of them. I find kicon easy to use on Linux.

-Chris

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You can also do it using wx itself, of course. I even seem to think
that img2py or some other helper script does that. If it doesn't, it
could be modified to do so pretty easily.

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On 1/11/07, Christopher Barker <Chris.Barker@noaa.gov> wrote:

Danny Shevitz wrote:
> Next stupid question: what tool would you use to create the bitmap in
> the first place?

Any number of icon/image editors -- there are a million of them. I find
kicon easy to use on Linux.

-Chris