[FIXED] Icons in PyQt application not showing up

Issue

I'm having a hard time making the icons from my application visible when the it runs. I've tried everything I could search, and still I don't know what could be wrong. My current dir looks like:

myapp/
├─ main.py
├─ icons_rc.py
├─ ui_window.py
├─ window.ui
├─ icons.qrc
├─ icons/
│  ├─ icon1.png
|  ├─ ...
|  ├─ iconN.png

The icons_rc.py file was generated with the command pyrcc5 icons.qrc -o icons_rc.py and it's imported to both the main.py and ui_window.py.

The icons.qrc file was generated in QtDesigner as the following:

<RCC>
  <qresource prefix="/">
    <file>icons/icon1.png</file>
    ...
    <file>icons/iconN.png</file>
  </qresource>
</RCC>

I've tried generating the .qrc file again, putting it inside the icons folder, changing the prefix of the file, and looked extensively into tutorials on how to do it step-by-step and still I have no clue what I'm doing wrong.

Solution

After some months ignoring this particular problem from my project, I finally was able to solve it! What I did was to add the "icons" part to the prefix, and used pyside-rcc to convert the .qrc file into a icons_rc.py, following a tutorial from PyQt's documentation page

Answered By - olenscki