Setting an Icon for Frame,Setting Icon on Frame Title Bar,Adding Image Icon to JFrame Title Bar

Setting an Icon for a Frame in Java

In this section, you will learn how to set an icon for the frame in Java Swing.

This program helps us to set the icon (image) on the title bar of the frame. When you open frame or window the icon situated on the title bar is seen on the taskbar also. For this purposes, various methods as follows has been used:

frame.setIconImage(Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage("icon_confused.gif"));
Above method sets the icon for the frame or window after getting the image using the Image class method named getImage().

frame.getDefaultToolkit():
This is the method of the Toolkit class which gets the default toolkit.

Here is the code of program:


import javax.swing.*;

import java.awt.*;



public class SettingIconFrame{

  public static void main(String[] args){

    JFrame frame = new JFrame("Setting an Icon for a frame");

    frame.setIconImage(Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage("icon_confused.gif"));

    frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);

    frame.setSize(400,400);

    frame.setVisible(true);

  }

}

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I put an image called "icon_confused.gif" in the same location as the class, but no image is ever showing in the frame. Suggestions or explanations?

Posted by John on Friday, 09.26.08 @ 20:39pm | #80727

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Posted by somepallirajesh on Wednesday, 06.11.08 @ 14:29pm | #63008

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Posted by somepallirajesh on Wednesday, 06.11.08 @ 14:16pm | #63007

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When i saw this site ,i felt very happy.Because all methos are available with program.

Posted by Govind on Thursday, 08.2.07 @ 14:13pm | #22482

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Unable to see the image.

Pls help.

Thanks in advance

Posted by Balu on Wednesday, 03.7.07 @ 12:16pm | #10948

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it is very nice site to understand the concepts of java

Posted by dillibabu.s on Tuesday, 02.27.07 @ 13:11pm | #9812

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Is it really has to be .gif picture? cause I've tried with .ico and .jpg and it didn't work ;(

Posted by julia on Saturday, 01.13.07 @ 04:36am | #3318

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I am a student in my second Java course at the University of Phoenix. I have been desperately trying to find a way to set a custom icon within the construct of JOptionPane.ShowMessageDialog. I have looked on Sun's web site, and I have searched high and low, but find it very difficult to find the information I am looking for.

Normally, an icon of an "i" with a circle appears to the left of the message displayed in an JOptionPane dialog. I simply want to replace that image with another icon that is a GIF file. I know this is theoretically possible, but would love any information you can provide on how to accomplish this goal.

Posted by Robert Hieger on Monday, 01.1.07 @ 11:55am | #2362

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yaa its good

Posted by sendil on Saturday, 12.30.06 @ 16:44pm | #2260

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Very helpful example.

Thanks!

Posted by Dave on Tuesday, 12.19.06 @ 19:33pm | #1270

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