How to change JFrame icon [duplicate]

Question

I have a JFrame that displays a Java icon on the title bar (left corner). I want to change that icon to my custom icon. How should I do it?

Colton

I bet that in the most cases those people have not even heard of the API yet. Probably the best solution in cases like this is to provide a link to the API with the answer. – Calen

Answer 1

Create a new ImageIcon object like this:

ImageIcon img = new ImageIcon(pathToFileOnDisk);

Then set it to your JFrame with setIconImage():

myFrame.setIconImage(img.getImage());

Also checkout setIconImages() which takes a List instead.

Plasterboard

what should be the size of the icon?.. im gonna create one now .. – Colton

See here for interesting discussion about size: coderanch.com/t/343726/Swing-AWT-SWT-JFace/java/… – Plasterboard

There may be different size values needed: Sizes of frame icons used in Swing – Hayne

You can set titlebar icon using setIconImage() of JFrame and image must be .png file – Conductance

Answer 2

Here is an Alternative that worked for me:

yourFrame.setIconImage(Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage(getClass().getResource(Filepath)));

It's very similar to the accepted Answer.

Bresnahan

The only one which answers how to use the image if it's a resource. :D – Elongate

Example for the filepath: The image is in "myProject/res" -> getClass().getResource("/myimage.png") (don't forget the leading "/"!) – Luxurious

Answer 3

JFrame.setIconImage(Image image) pretty standard.

Blatherskite

These solutions do not work. – Bedcover

Answer 4

Here is how I do it:

import javax.swing.ImageIcon;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import java.io.File;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import javax.swing.JButton;



public class MainFrame implements ActionListener{

/**
 * 
 */


/**
 * @param args
 */
public static void main(String[] args) {
    String appdata = System.getenv("APPDATA");
    String iconPath = appdata + "\\JAPP_icon.png";
    File icon = new File(iconPath);

    if(!icon.exists()){
        FileDownloaderNEW fd = new FileDownloaderNEW();
        fd.download("http://icons.iconarchive.com/icons/artua/mac/512/Setting-icon.png", iconPath, false, false);
    }
        JFrame frm = new JFrame("Test");
        ImageIcon imgicon = new ImageIcon(iconPath);
        JButton bttn = new JButton("Kill");
        MainFrame frame = new MainFrame();
        bttn.addActionListener(frame);
        frm.add(bttn);
        frm.setIconImage(imgicon.getImage());
        frm.setSize(100, 100);
        frm.setVisible(true);


}

@Override
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
    System.exit(0);

}

}

and here is the downloader:

import java.awt.GridLayout;
import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
import java.io.BufferedOutputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;

import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
import javax.swing.JProgressBar;

public class FileDownloaderNEW extends JFrame {
  private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

  public static void download(String a1, String a2, boolean showUI, boolean exit)
    throws Exception
  {

    String site = a1;
    String filename = a2;
    JFrame frm = new JFrame("Download Progress");
    JProgressBar current = new JProgressBar(0, 100);
    JProgressBar DownloadProg = new JProgressBar(0, 100);
    JLabel downloadSize = new JLabel();
    current.setSize(50, 50);
    current.setValue(43);
    current.setStringPainted(true);
    frm.add(downloadSize);
    frm.add(current);
    frm.add(DownloadProg);
    frm.setVisible(showUI);
    frm.setLayout(new GridLayout(1, 3, 5, 5));
    frm.pack();
    frm.setDefaultCloseOperation(3);
    try
    {
      URL url = new URL(site);
      HttpURLConnection connection = 
        (HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection();
      int filesize = connection.getContentLength();
      float totalDataRead = 0.0F;
      BufferedInputStream in = new      BufferedInputStream(connection.getInputStream());
      FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(filename);
      BufferedOutputStream bout = new BufferedOutputStream(fos, 1024);
      byte[] data = new byte[1024];
      int i = 0;
      while ((i = in.read(data, 0, 1024)) >= 0)
      {
        totalDataRead += i;
        float prog = 100.0F - totalDataRead * 100.0F / filesize;
        DownloadProg.setValue((int)prog);
        bout.write(data, 0, i);
        float Percent = totalDataRead * 100.0F / filesize;
        current.setValue((int)Percent);
        double kbSize = filesize / 1000;

        String unit = "kb";
        double Size;
        if (kbSize > 999.0D) {
          Size = kbSize / 1000.0D;
          unit = "mb";
        } else {
          Size = kbSize;
        }
        downloadSize.setText("Filesize: " + Double.toString(Size) + unit);
      }
      bout.close();
      in.close();
      System.out.println("Took " + System.nanoTime() / 1000000000L / 10000L + "      seconds");
    }
    catch (Exception e)
    {
      JOptionPane.showConfirmDialog(
        null, e.getMessage(), "Error", 
        -1);
    } finally {
        if(exit = true){
            System.exit(128);   
        }

    }
  }
}

Misdeed

imgicon.getImage() is what i needed thanks – Nam

Answer 5

Just add the following code:

setIconImage(new ImageIcon(PathOfFile).getImage());

Foah

Answer 6

Unfortunately, the above solution did not work for Jython Fiji plugin. I had to use getProperty to construct the relative path dynamically.

Here's what worked for me:

import java.lang.System.getProperty;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.ImageIcon;

frame = JFrame("Test")
icon = ImageIcon(getProperty('fiji.dir') + '/path/relative2Fiji/icon.png')
frame.setIconImage(icon.getImage());
frame.setVisible(True)

Hillside

what is jthon? @Hillside – Geothermal

Jython is Python implemented with java – Hillside

Answer 7

This did the trick in my case super or this referes to JFrame in my class

URL url = getClass().getResource("gfx/hi_20px.png");
ImageIcon imgicon = new ImageIcon(url);
super.setIconImage(imgicon.getImage());

Nam

You don't need the super or this in your case. You can leave it out. – Imagism

may be you are right it depends on your inheritance design – Nam

If you extend your class it is not really necessary. – Imagism

as i remember i think i had inner classes with same method which make thing ambigous but yor assumption is the default i agree – Nam

Yes you are right. That is why I said it's not necessary, because it has to be done sometimes if you wan't two have a method with the same name ^^ – Imagism

Answer 8

Add the following code within the constructor like so:

public Calculator() {
    initComponents();
//the code to be added        this.setIconImage(newImageIcon(getClass().getResource("color.png")).getImage());     }

Change "color.png" to the file name of the picture you want to insert. Drag and drop this picture onto the package (under Source Packages) of your project.

Run your project.

Prone

You can set titlebar icon using setIconImage() of JFrame and image must be .png file – Conductance