Detect loading of ImageIcon from URL?

[Barclay Berger]

I'm pretty new to java, I'm trying to detect if an image gets loaded or not, don't know how to do that. I thought by catching the url command it would do it but if you link to an image that doesn't exist it doesn't throw and exception. How can I either detect if url was correct or if icon exists? Thanks

java.net.URL where = new URL("http://www.domain.com/testimage.jpg");
ImageIcon icon = new ImageIcon(where);

[Ulf Dittmer]

As is explained here, you should first verify that the URL is valid. Additionally/alternatively you can provide an image observer to get more information about the loading process via the ImageIcon.setImageObserver method.

[Barclay Berger]

Thanks, I'll try the url stuff first, other is above my head