Can't find package tkdnd

[AlbertLord]

Before posting I've reviewed issues: #104 and #225

I've made an application using the tkinter and tkinterdnd:

import tkinter as tk
from tkinter import filedialog
from tkinter import ttk
from tkinterdnd2 import DND_FILES, TkinterDnD

Using the PyInstaller code generated by auto-py-to-exe:
pyinstaller --noconfirm --onefile --windowed "E:/[REDACTED FOR PRIVACY]/stp_to_xyz_application.py"

Though the .exe was created successfully, running it gave an error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "tkinterdnd2\TkinterDnD.py", line 53, in _require
_tkinter.TclError: can't find package tkdnd

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "stp_to_xyz_application.py", line 148, in
File "tkinterdnd2\TkinterDnD.py", line 285, in init
File "tkinterdnd2\TkinterDnD.py", line 55, in _require
RuntimeError: Unable to load tkdnd library.

After this I tried using the --hidden-import adding tkdnd and tkinterdnd2 to the command:
pyinstaller --noconfirm --onefile --windowed --hidden-import "tkinterdnd2" --hidden-import "tkdnd" "E:/[REDACTED]/stp_to_xyz_application.py"
This resulted in the same error.

Next I've added the paths of the library to the --paths :
pyinstaller --noconfirm --onefile --windowed --hidden-import "tkinterdnd2" --hidden-import "tkdnd" --paths "C:/Users/[REDACTED]/AppData/Local/Programs/Python/Python311/Lib/site-packages/tkdnd" --paths "C:/Users/[REDACTED]/AppData/Local/Programs/Python/Python311/Lib/site-packages/tkinterdnd2" "E:/[REDACTED]/stp_to_xyz_application.py"

Same error and I'm out of ideas.

Thank you for any help in advance.

[github-actions]

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[brentvollebregt]

Unfortunately this issue is library-specific so I won't be able to offer a huge amount of help as the issue more lies around how tkinterdnd2 works.

I see this comment is talking about a PyInstaller hook, which would have helped identify the missing parts - unfortunately that repo doesn't exist anymore. I just looked inside that module and saw there were a lot of .tcl files - maybe the library you are using also has these .tcl files?

I would recommend trying to add --collect-all MODULENAME - this should collect any data files from the package, like the potentially missing .tcl files.

[AlbertLord]

Adding --collect-all tkinterdnd2 seem to resolve the problem.

Playing around a bit, I found that I do not need any --path or --hidden-import, the following command produced a working application:
pyinstaller --noconfirm --onefile --windowed --collect-all "tkinterdnd2" "E:/[REDACTED]/stp_to_xyz_application.py"

Thank you for your help.