Best Way to Display Icons

[Isaac Hewitt]

Hi,

I want to display icons much in the same way they are seen displayed in any window of Windows. I am using the following code to fetch the icons.

         
            final java.io.File f = new java.io.File("file name");
            try {
                sun.awt.shell.ShellFolder shell = sun.awt.shell.ShellFolder.getShellFolder(f);
                return new JLabel(new ImageIcon(shell.getIcon(true)));
            } catch(Exception x) {
                JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(new JFrame(), x.getMessage(), "Copy Error", 2);
            }  

I just want to know what container is the best to diplay them in a FlowLayout.
Thanks.

[Darryl Burke]

Just add the Icons (not JLabels) to a DefaultListModel and display them in a JList with the layoutOrientation set to HORIZONTAL_WRAP.

[Isaac Hewitt]

Ok Darryl,

I will try displaying the icons in a JList as you have suggested.

Thanks for the hint.

[Rob Spoor]

I suggest you don't use ShellFolder; it's in a package that starts with sun, and classes in these packages (along with sunw and com.sun) can change drastically (or even be dropped) between releases.

The good news is that you can use ShellFolder through a class that's in the API - FileSystemView:

FileSystemView view = FileSystemView.getFileSystemView();
Icon icon = view.getSystemIcon(f);
return new JLabel(icon);

[Isaac Hewitt]

Thanks for your reply Bob. I just now got back to this forum and saw that you were the last one to post a comment. I will use what you posted in the place of the shell method. Thanks alot for taking the time to post it and sorry for the late response.

[Rob Spoor]

You're welcome, but it's Rob, not Bob.