How do I change the icon of an apllication

cricque

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Jan 19, 1999, 3:00:00 AM1/19/99

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Instead of using the coffecup Java icon in the topleft corner i would like
to use another icon

is it possible

How od you do this

frame.setIcon(icon); ???????????

Using jdk1.2 on winnt
(sometimes using jdk1.1.7 and swing 1.03 on win98)

Mr. Tines

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Jan 19, 1999, 3:00:00 AM1/19/99

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On Tue, 19 Jan 1999 19:27:09 +0100, in <782j4j$ui0$1...@news0.skynet.be>
"cricque" <cr...@dma.be> wrote.....

> Instead of using the coffecup Java icon in the topleft corner i would
like
> to use another icon
>
> is it possible
>
> How od you do this
>
> frame.setIcon(icon); ???????????

Almost. Look for something very like that in the
java.awt.Frame documentation.

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Marty Krahe

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Jan 20, 1999, 3:00:00 AM1/20/99

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Try the following:

import java.awt.MediaTracker; // For setIconImage() and MediaTracker

// Set the icon that gets displayed when window is iconized
// (must be a .gif .jpg or .jpeg file (I believe))
Image image = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage ("Jester.gif");
this.setIconImage (image);
MediaTracker tracker = new MediaTracker (this);
tracker.addImage (image, 0); // 2nd parm is an ID and must be unique
for each image added
try {tracker.waitForAll();}
catch (InterruptedException e) {}

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cricque wrote in message <782j4j$ui0$1...@news0.skynet.be>...

>Instead of using the coffecup Java icon in the topleft corner i would like
>to use another icon
>
>is it possible
>
>How od you do this
>
>frame.setIcon(icon); ???????????
>
>

Chris Wolf

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Feb 2, 1999, 3:00:00 AM2/2/99

to Marty Krahe

I have a similar scenario, except in my situation, I need to change
the icon for an applet. Since and applet is derived from Panel,
I first search for the underlying Frame and call it's setIconImage()
method. I tried Marty's idea of using a MediaTracker,
But it STILL doesn't work. Anyone have some ideas??

I already verified that the image is in the right place and is readable
by loading and displaying it with another test applet.

public void init()
{
setLayout(new BorderLayout());

Object obj = getParent();

while (! (obj instanceof Frame))
obj = ((Component) obj).getParent();
baseFrame = (Frame)obj;

try{
emisIcon = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage( new
URL(getDocumentBase(), "images/snapi.gif"));
}catch(Exception e){ e.printStackTrace(); }
//emisIcon = getImage(getDocumentBase(), "images/snapi.gif");
// This didn't work either...
EmisGbl.emisIcon = emisIcon;

baseFrame.setIconImage(emisIcon);
mt = new MediaTracker(baseFrame);
mt.addImage(emisIcon, 100);
try{ mt.waitForAll();}catch(InterruptedException e){}

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