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Adding Image from Filesystem to Jlabel

I working on a project, where i need to display images in a JFrame. The images are downloaded dynamically and need to be stored outside the jar file. How do i display images (using Jlabel) from the computer's file-system ?

Solution

  • Suppose the images are stored in a folder say 'image' or whatever location. I am supposing that you have an image folder inside src (source folder), though you may change it to whatever location you want.

    /*
URL logoUrl = this.getClass().getResource("/images/login_icon.png"); // you can change this location
Toolkit tk1 = this.getToolkit();   
logo = tk1.getImage(logoUrl);
*/
// use above code if the image lies within your jar file
// otherwise use below code for images stored in path like C:\User\Desktop ..

ImageIcon image = new ImageIcon("C:\\Users\\Public\\Pictures\\Desert.jpg");    
jLabel2.setIcon(image);  // where jLabel2 is your label

    This will work!