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We always wish to set your image or company’s logo as the icon for a game while building a video game. If so, we can use the set_icon() function to set it as an icon after declaring the image.  


To send HTTP requests using Python, the requests module is used. This request returns a Response Object with all the response data (content, image etc.). Python Imaging Library ( PIL) is the image processing package for Python language. It is a lightweight image processing tool that does editing, creates, and saves images. Python Imaging Library access got stopped in 2011, but a pillow library was activated in the original PIL project. The pillow supports image file formats like BMP, PNG, JPEG, and TIFF. The pillow is replaced for PIL for further usage.  

Import the requests library to download an image in Python. We have to pass the URL of the image into the requests. To get a response object from the server, the get(url) function is used. 

The display mode is set to (250,150). The displayed object is filled by the fill method. The blit() method places the image on the screen. It follows some properties like the size of the width and height.  


Here is an example of how to set the Pygame icon to an online image: 

Preview of the output that you will get on running this code from your IDE.

Code

In this solution, we used pygame,requests and PIL library.

How to set the pygame icon to an online image

PythondotLines of Code : 23dotLicense : Strong Copyleft (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Dependent Libraries : 
import pygame
from io import BytesIO
import requests
from PIL import Image

# create image from URL
rsp = requests.get('https://www.pygame.org/docs/_static/pygame_tiny.png')
pilimage = Image.open(BytesIO(rsp.content)).convert("RGBA")
pgimg = pygame.image.fromstring(pilimage.tobytes(), pilimage.size, pilimage.mode)

# show image
pygame.init()
display = pygame.display.set_mode((250,150))

display.fill((255,255,255))
display.blit(pgimg,((250 - pgimg.get_rect().width)/2,(150 - pgimg.get_rect().height)/2))
pygame.display.update()

while True:
    for event in pygame.event.get():
        if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
            pygame.quit(); exit()

Instructions

Follow the steps carefully to get the output easily.

  1. Download and Install the PyCharm Community Edition on your computer.
  2. Open the terminal and install the required libraries with the following commands.
  3. Install pygame - pip install pygame.
  4. Install requests - pip install requests.
  5. Install pillow - pip install pillow.
  6. Create a new Python file on your IDE.
  7. Copy the snippet using the 'copy' button and paste it into your Python file.
  8. Run the current file to generate the output.


I hope you found this useful. I have added the link to dependent libraries, and version information in the following sections.


I found this code snippet by searching for ' set the pygame icon to an online image ' in kandi. You can try any such use case!

Environment Tested

I tested this solution in the following versions. Be mindful of changes when working with other versions.

  1. The solution is created in PyCharm 2022.3.
  2. The solution is tested on Python 3.11.1
  3. pygame version- 2.3.0
  4. requests version- 2.28.2
  5. Pillow (PIL) version- 9.4.0.


Using this solution, we are able to set the pygame icon to an online image with simple steps. This process also facilities an easy way to use, hassle-free method to create a hands-on working version of code which would help us to set the pygame icon to an online image.

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                                                              If you do not have pygame, requests, and pillow libraries that are required to run this code, you can install them by clicking on the above link.

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