[PyQt] Images not showing in WebView after cx_Freeze

[Mikael Modin]

Hi,


As I understood it png support is built-in and doesn't need a module
for that. Might have changed since that mail thread was written
though.

I will look into pyInstaller as well then.

/Mikael

On 3 January 2011 21:03, Hans-Peter Jansen <hpj at urpla.net> wrote:
> On Monday 03 January 2011, 04:10:08 Mikael Modin wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm currently developing a small tool for taking and sending
>> screnshots, time-reporting for freelancers, and am using cx_Freeze to
>> avoid having the users install python, pyqt and all other
>> dependencies.
>>
>> The problem I'm having is that after running the code through
>> cx_Freeze images on a web page doesn't seem to work.
>> 1) All I get is the grey box with a question mark inside of it.
>> 2) The same setup works when I run the python code by itself without
>> cx_Freeze. 3) Loading a local html-page that just contains an img-tag
>> works fine, so the actual image loading and showing seem to work
>> fine. Loading Google and that works, so images over network work
>> fine. The server send the images in png format.
>>
>> These three combined leave me very confused. Has anybody else had any
>> similar trouble?
>
> Most probably, your app suffers from missing Qt image format plugins,
> or, equally likely, cx_freeze failed to include them in a way, that Qt
> is able to use them properly.
>
> You might try PyInstaller, that is prepared for such (Qt/PyQt) needs.
>
> Good luck,
> Pete
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