I develop an application with an icon in the system tray of macOS but when I generate the executable with pyinstaller and I launch the application, the menu is well in the system tray but I do not see the icon, as if I had nothing.
I use PySide6 6.4.0.1, Python 3.10.7 and pyinstaller 5.6.1. Here is the code for the system tray
app = QApplication()
main_window = MainWindow()
if not QSystemTrayIcon.isSystemTrayAvailable():
QMessageBox.critical(None, 'System Tray', 'System tray was not detected!')
sys.exit(1)
app.setQuitOnLastWindowClosed(False)
icon = QIcon('ressources/icon.jpg')
tray = QSystemTrayIcon()
tray.setIcon(icon)
tray.setVisible(True)
menu = QMenu()
action_hello = QAction('Hello World')
action_hello.triggered.connect(main_window.say_hello)
menu.addAction(action_hello)
action_exit = QAction('Exit')
action_exit.triggered.connect(app.exit)
menu.addAction(action_exit)
tray.setToolTip('Hello World app')
tray.setContextMenu(menu)
tray.show()
# Launch the app
app.exec()
I finally succeeded. I have found a part of the solution here! It was necessary to add the icon in a resource file specific to Qt. Here is a tutoriel to do that. I have create a file icon.qrc :
<!DOCTYPE RCC><RCC version="1.0">
<qresource prefix="/">
<file>ressources/icon.ico</file>
</qresource>
</RCC>
Then, I have run the following commmand in cmd : pyside6-rcc icons.qrc -o rc_icons.py.
After, I
I imported the new file created rc_icons.py in hello.py : import rc_icons.py.
Finally, I have created my icon like this : icon = QIcon(QPixmap(":/ressources/icon.ico"))
Now, when I run the pyinstaller command and the executable, I see the icon on the system tray.