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setImageIcon doesn't set JFrame icon on mac swing window

I've already tried loads of code from Stack. For some reason it's just not setting the ImageIcon for my JFrame, the comments are other attempts that have not worked;I avoided calling super so that I could reference the JFrame -- GUIPhotoAlbum extends JFrame; code:

public GUIPhotoAlbum ()
{
    super("PhotoAlbum");
    ImageIcon img = new ImageIcon("Photos/albumIcon.png");
    this.setIconImage(img.getImage());

    /*
    try{
        setIconImage(ImageIO.read(new File("Photos/albumIcon.png")));
    }catch(Exception e){
        System.out.print("Didn't work.");
    }
    */

    setSize(875, 625);
    this.setDefaultCloseOperation (JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    this.setLayout(new BorderLayout(5, 5));

    initComponents();
    initMenuBar();

    initTopPanel();
    add(topPanel, BorderLayout.CENTER);

    initBottomPanel();
    add(bottomPanel, BorderLayout.SOUTH);

    addListeners();

    setLocationRelativeTo(null);
    setVisible(true);
}

EDIT I'm running the program like this, where I try to set the ImageIcon of JFrame in the GUIPhotoAlbum() constructor; here's the driver:

public class AlbumDriver
{   
    public static void main (String [ ] args)
    {
           SwingUtilities.invokeLater 
           (
                 new Runnable()
                 {
                        @Override
                        public void run()
                        {
                            GUIPhotoAlbum pa = new GUIPhotoAlbum();
                        }   
                 }
           ); 
    }

}

What am I doing wrong here? PS I've tried BufferedImage, ImageIcon, using File.. and I'm using a Mac

Solution

  • Mac does not support frame icons, as seen in this answer.