Giving an application a window icon in a sensible way
- From: "Twisted" <twisted0n3@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 19 Nov 2006 17:24:57 -0800
Hrm. How to go about doing this?
I want to give a Java application a window icon in a manner that is
independent of how it is installed, etc.
The trick is obtaining an Image object for myJFrame.setIconImage().
Loading it from a URL means it won't work without a working network
connection, and I need to host the image somewhere. Every copy of the
app running anywhere in the world will, on startup, hit that host with
a request for the file(!). Loading it from a file path requires a
separate installer that sets the image into a specific directory.
Putting it in a JAR file with the app means learning a big new chunk of
API, plus it won't work when running in the development environment
rather than as a standalone executable JAR.
This suggests doing the ListMessageBundle sort of thing, and somehow
packaging it as a class -- an Image subclass, presumably. Is there a
tool for turning a jpeg, gif, or png into Java source code for an Image
subclass that will, when instantiated, behave as the appropriate jpeg?
I don't have the google-fu to find this -- searches for queries like
"image resource class java" didn't do much for me. Damn, we need *real*
natural language search. :P
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