ImageIcon : Java Glossary

2008-05-06 by Roedy Green ©1996-2008 Canadian Mind Products
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ImageIcon

A Swing class for encapsulating an Image and provides built-in MediaTracker for it. It is not a JComponent, so it cannot on its own display the Image. There are constructors that will let you fetch the Image from an Image object, or from a file or from an URL. There is no constructor to fetch the image directly from a resource. You must use getResource to get you the URL of the resource in the jar given its name, and feed that to the ImageIcon constructor.

You most commonly use an ImageIcon with JLabel. setIcon or JButton.setIcon.

Learning More

Sun’s Javadoc on the ImageIcon class : available:

on the web at java.Sun.com
in the JDK 1.6.0_06 or in the older JDK 1.5.0_15 or the even older JDK 1.4.2_17 on your local J: drive.

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