Image files not included in pysidedeploy build

[Labeaoux]

I am building an application that relies on some images. I am packaging the application with the pysidedeploy tool. In my code I am actively changing the root application path to adjust for whether I am running locally or in the deployed application. However I am noticing that in my builds the MacOS folder in the .app Contents folder does not contain any of my .png files.

For example:

if getattr(sys, "frozen", False):
        application_path = sys._MEIPASS
    else:
        application_path = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))

    icon_path = os.path.join(application_path, "icons/1.png")
    if not os.path.exists(icon_path):
        print(f"Warning: Icon file not found at {icon_path}")

yields a

Warning: Icon file not found at /path/to/build/myApp.app/Contents/MacOS/icons/ooo.png

I have attempted adding the image paths to my pyproject file:

{
    "files": [
       ...
        "icons/1.png",
        "icons/2.png",
        ...
    ]
}

And also to my pysidedeploy.spec

[files]
include = 
	icons/1.png,
	icons/2.png,

However still there are no png artifacts located anywhere in my build directory. How can this be done?

[CristianMaureira]

For the .qrc approach to work, which is what we recommend, to do the following:

If you have icons/ in the root of your project, then add to your .qrc file needs to have entries like: <file>icons/1.png</file>, and then when you generate the .py file out of it, you import it in the file you want to use, and refer to the files like :/icons/1.png.

More information in https://doc.qt.io/qtforpython-6/tutorials/basictutorial/qrcfiles.html#tutorial-qrcfiles

With that, pyside6-project will pick them automatically.

The <name>.pyproject file is only a construct for QtCreator to open projects, and it's not related to pyside6-deploy