Is it possible to display the icon for my toplevel
and root
window after removing the minimize and maximize buttons? I tried using -toolwindow
but the icon can't be displayed afterwards. Is there another way I can remove the min and max size buttons from window while still displaying the icon?
from tkinter import *
def top():
tp = Toplevel()
tp.geometry("300x300")
tp.attributes("-toolwindow", 1)
tp.iconbitmap("My icon.ico")
root = Tk()
root.geometry("400x400")
b = Button(root, text="open window with icon", command=top).pack()
root.mainloop()
Windows-specific solution
First option is to make your toplevel
window transient for the root
window which is a really simple solution.
All you need to do is change line tp.attributes("-toolwindow", 1)
to tp.transient(root)
!
Second option is more complicated, but more universal within the Windows system.
Each window in the Windows system has it's own style, which is represented as a logical disjunction of bit-styles. You can build the new style from a scratch or set new style to disjunction of the old one with a bit-style (to switch it on) or to conjunction of the old one with a negation of bit-style (to switch it off):
- To switch off minimize/maximize:
new style = old style AND NOT Maximize AND NOT Minimize
- To switch on minimize/maximize:
new style = old style OR Maximize OR Minimize
For all that interaction we need the ctypes library (comes with python) and a set of the WinAPI functions:
- GetWindowLong - to get a current style of the window
- SetWindowLong - to set a new style of the window
- SetWindowPos - to update the window (note remarks section)
- GetParent - to get a hwnd of the owner window, because we're trying to make changes in the non-client area.
Check this example:
import tkinter as tk
import ctypes
# shortcuts to the WinAPI functionality
set_window_pos = ctypes.windll.user32.SetWindowPos
set_window_long = ctypes.windll.user32.SetWindowLongPtrW
get_window_long = ctypes.windll.user32.GetWindowLongPtrW
get_parent = ctypes.windll.user32.GetParent
# some of the WinAPI flags
GWL_STYLE = -16
WS_MINIMIZEBOX = 131072
WS_MAXIMIZEBOX = 65536
SWP_NOZORDER = 4
SWP_NOMOVE = 2
SWP_NOSIZE = 1
SWP_FRAMECHANGED = 32
def hide_minimize_maximize(window):
hwnd = get_parent(window.winfo_id())
# getting the old style
old_style = get_window_long(hwnd, GWL_STYLE)
# building the new style (old style AND NOT Maximize AND NOT Minimize)
new_style = old_style & ~ WS_MAXIMIZEBOX & ~ WS_MINIMIZEBOX
# setting new style
set_window_long(hwnd, GWL_STYLE, new_style)
# updating non-client area
set_window_pos(hwnd, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, SWP_NOMOVE | SWP_NOSIZE | SWP_NOZORDER | SWP_FRAMECHANGED)
def show_minimize_maximize(window):
hwnd = get_parent(window.winfo_id())
# getting the old style
old_style = get_window_long(hwnd, GWL_STYLE)
# building the new style (old style OR Maximize OR Minimize)
new_style = old_style | WS_MAXIMIZEBOX | WS_MINIMIZEBOX
# setting new style
set_window_long(hwnd, GWL_STYLE, new_style)
# updating non-client area
set_window_pos(hwnd, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, SWP_NOMOVE | SWP_NOSIZE | SWP_NOZORDER | SWP_FRAMECHANGED)
def top():
tp = tk.Toplevel()
# tp.geometry('300x300')
# tp.iconbitmap('icon.ico')
hide_minmax = tk.Button(tp, text='hide minimize/maximize', command=lambda: hide_minimize_maximize(tp))
hide_minmax.pack()
show_minmax = tk.Button(tp, text='show minimize/maximize', command=lambda: show_minimize_maximize(tp))
show_minmax.pack()
root = tk.Tk()
root.geometry('400x400')
b = tk.Button(root, text='open window with icon', command=top)
b.pack()
root.mainloop()