How to change the icon in the pygame window?

Question

I am making use of pygame module to make games but how do I change the default icon that appears on the Title Bar.

I am using Python 3.4.

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 22 '15 at 10:46

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To set the icon, you first need to load the image.

icon = pygame.image.load('image.png')

Next you use the image which you loaded, and set it as the icon.

pygame.display.set_icon(icon)

answered Oct 22 '15 at 10:46

Shahzad

Hey thanks for that , but also tell me how to load an image from a hyperlink such as from lorem-pixels website – Tilak Madichetti Oct 22 '15 at 10:49
@TilakMadichetti I'm not sure how you would do this with pygame, but take a look at [this](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7391945/how-do-i-read-image-data-from-a-url-in-python). – Shahzad Oct 22 '15 at 10:57
That was exactly what I was looking for .. Thanks Bud !! Now you don't need to be "not sure" with your answer – Tilak Madichetti Oct 22 '15 at 10:59
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@TilakMadichetti Glad I could help. We both learnt something new :) – Shahzad Oct 22 '15 at 11:02

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 22 '15 at 10:41

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Have you tried set_icon()? Never used pygame before but it seems the way to go.

answered Oct 22 '15 at 10:41

Lucas Infante

To use set_icon() method , the documentary says that I should I pass a surface , but I want to load my own custom logo stored as ".png" file in the same directory instead of a surface – Tilak Madichetti Oct 22 '15 at 10:45
im also facing the same issue – Prachi Joshi Feb 19 '19 at 14:48

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